Bush Tucker Size:115 x 145 cm and provided a cool place

and provided a cool place for the families to live during the hot summers

She grew up living a traditional lifestyle with her family

It is used as a ceremonial wrap and as a strap to carry ‘parraja’ (coolamons) and ‘ngami’ (water carriers)

Her home was the Aboriginal Community of Nyirripi

Bush Tucker Size:115 x 145 cm and provided a cool placeLorna Fencer Napurrula was born in the 1920s in the Tanami Desert in Central Australia. She was among the first Aboriginal artists who took up painting with acrylic on canvas and linen in her community of Lajamanu. As a prominent elder she not only maintained but strengthened her cultural identity through her paintings and ceremonies. Lorna passed away in 2006 but her art will survive generations. In 2007 she was named one of Australias 50 most