Alice Illustrated Around the World

Alitjinya ngura Tjukurtjarangka / Alitji in the Dreamtime.

Translated into Pitjantjatjara by Nancy Sheppard.

Illustrated by Byron W. Sewell.

Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide, Department of Adult Education, 1975.

A bilingual edition, with Alice translated into Pitjantjatjara and also adapted into Australian English. When this book was produced, the aboriginal Pitjantjatjara language had only recently been given a written form. Byron's illustrations are brilliantly modeled on the mystical bark painting of the indigenous peoples of the Northern territory.

Exhibit item 3.7