Glass-Tipped Spear 1 Daisy Napaltjarri Jugadai The iconography surrounding the rock

The iconography surrounding the rock pools are the sandhills (Tali) that the women must travel over to reach the water

approx 270kms north east of Alice Springs

Timber frame behind glass

It required personally breaking vases of significance and painstakingly planning and determining how to rebuild a new object

Size: 118 x 119cm

Glass-Tipped Spear 1 Daisy Napaltjarri Jugadai The iconography surrounding the rockYear: 2024 Size: 220 (L) x 2cm Amber Glass Tip: 12cm grass tree, ochre and acrylic, grass tree resin and hand knapped glass This spear references the glass artifacts made by First Nations people during the colonial period, using flaked glass for use as a form of protection. When European colonizers, pastoralists, and telegraph lines arrived in the 19th and 20th centuries, they brought manufactured glass. The molecular structure of glass was nearly