amateur photographer, illustrator and craft teacher. Illustrated Nancy L. Nicholson’s Pitjantjatjara Primer (Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions n.d); author of The People in Between: The Pitjantijatjara People of Ernabella (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968, ill with colour and b/w photos); 'The Beginnings and Development of Pitjantjatjara Art at Ernabella’ in A Myriad of Dreaming (Malkoff Fine Art Press, 1989, pp. 113-116); and 'Women Artists at Ernabella’ in M. Kavanagh (ed.), Minyma Tjuta Tjunguringkula Kunpuringanyi: Women Growing Strong Together (Alice Springs, 1990, p.26.)
WORKS: Colour photograph of Ernabella girls with wool rug c.1955, (Institute of Aboriginal Studies [date unknown]). From 1949 at Ernabella women were taught [by Mrs Bennett ] to adapt their traditional spinning skills to wool which they dyed and made into floor rugs using their own designs. Loom set up there in late ’40s. These designs developed from drawings made by the children when school opened in 1940, initially painted and sold as Christmas cards. From 1954 cards and large designs were painted throughout the year. Tradition continues in acrylic and batik work (est. 1974 from whence it spread to Utopia in 1977) (S.Kirby p.47, p.93).
Winifred Hilliard, photographer, Ernabella girls with wool rug n.d. (c.1955), Institute of Aboriginal Studies [date unknown].
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
