Tangki Tjuta - Donkeys

Name: Tangki Tjuta - Donkeys
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781761180149
Price: 27.99 NZD
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By Tjanpi Desert Weavers

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Tangki Tjuta - Donkeys offers a delightful adventure that weaves storytelling with cultural richness and engaging illustrations. Crafted by Tjanpi Desert Weavers, this children's book invites young readers on a journey into the Australian desert, presenting the unique and heartwarming tale of donkeys living harmoniously within their environment. The story encapsulates themes of community, landscape, and the rich traditions of Indigenous art and storytelling.
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This charming children's book might appeal to you if you love stories that celebrate cultural heritage and creativity, often through delightful imagery and storytelling from Indigenous perspectives. Featuring the artistic talents of the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, it offers young readers a unique insight into the vibrant world of the Anangu people of Australia.

Tangki Tjuta - Donkeys

Fresh, funny and highly original, Tangki Tjuta - Donkeys is an endearing dual language story about how donkeys came to be a rich part of life for one Aboriginal community. Told in Pitjantjatjara and English.

Description

SHORTLISTED: 2024 Chief Minister's NT Book Awards, Children's/YA Books

Long, 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 and longer journeys, always returning home safely.

Told in Pitjantjatjara and English and featuring the whimsical, distinctive sculptures that have made Tjanpi Desert Weavers famous, this dual language Australian story offers warm and humorous insights from an Anangu perspective.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761180149

Publisher: A&U Children's

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 July 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: A&U Children

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 250.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 406g

Pages: 32

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Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Tjanpi Desert Weavers

About the Author

The Pitjantjatjara text is by Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM and Imuna Kenta based on stories by Akitiya Angkuna Tjitayi, Imuna Kenta and Anne Karatjari Ward, and the English translation is by Linda Rive. The artworks featured in Tangki Tjuta - Donkeys are created by seventeen artists of the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, a social enterprise of Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council supporting 400+ women to create fibre art across the central and western desert regions of Australia. The artists made these sculptures from minarri, wangunu and intiyanu: desert grasses collected from their Lands. They bound the grass together around wire frames with string, wool or raffia. One of the donkeys was made from buffel grass, which was introduced by Piranpa (white people) and has become a weed. Tjanpi means desert grass in the Western Desert language.