Tangki Tjuta - Donkeys | Authors: Tjanpi Desert Weavers Nanoblock Designed by Yolanda and Susanna

Designed by Yolanda and Susanna - two Sydney creatives with a few decades of professional experience in cultural psychology and design between them

New Zealand

Details:Designed and made locally in SydneyHand painted wooden ornament with jute twine

Bell is internationally renowned for his practice

Size: 5 x 3cm

Tangki Tjuta - Donkeys | Authors: Tjanpi Desert Weavers Nanoblock Designed by Yolanda and SusannaLong, long ago, we didn't have donkeys. We didn't have a lot of the things we have today. We didn't know donkeys existed. Our people used to walk with their camels and donkeys from Areyonga to Ernabella. They brought their donkeys here, and left them. Donkeys are malpa wiru, valuable friends and helpers in the families and desert community of Pukatja (Ernabella) in the APY Lands of northern South Australia. People set off on their donkeys for picnics