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Niningka Lewis
(Australia circa 1946– )
- Language group
- Pitjantjatjara, Southern Desert region
- Title
- Tjanpi Truckpa
- Year
- 2007
- Media categories
- Weaving, Sculpture
- Materials used
- wire, minarri (greybeard grass Amphipogon caricinus)
- Dimensions
-
19.0 x 20.0 x 45.0cm
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Collection Benefactors' Group 2008
- Accession number
- 347.2008
- Copyright
- © Niningka Lewis. NPY Women's Council
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Before we made the tjanpi [baskets] with wool. I went to Adelaide and I found this raffia in a shop. I saw all the other colours there but I only had money for the plain one. I brought it back and made a basket and all the women saw it. It was a new idea; they all asked, 'Where did you get it?' And then the Women’s Council rang up and found out about it and brought it to Alice Springs. -- Niningka Lewis
- Bibliography (3)
-
Penny Watson (Compilator), Tjanpi desert weavers, South Yarra, 2012, 303 (colour illus.).
Tjanpi desert weavers 2011, 2011, 60 (colour illus.) 141.
'Collections: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art', pg. 22-25., Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2008-09 2009, 2009, 24, 25 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
-
18th Annual Desert Mob Exhibition (2008), Araluen Centre, 28 Sep 2008–09 Nov 2008.
