Red Kangaroo Books
From bush poetry and traditional bush tucker recipes to anthropological texts on Aboriginal people and their culture, Red Kangaroo Books has an outstanding collection of literature pertaining to all things Australian.
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Shopping in Alice Springs is all about Aboriginal art and artifacts. Central Australian Aboriginal paintings are characterized by intricate patterns of dots—and are commonly called sand paintings because they were originally drawn on sand as ceremonial devices.
From bush poetry and traditional bush tucker recipes to anthropological texts on Aboriginal people and their culture, Red Kangaroo Books has an outstanding collection of literature pertaining to all things Australian.
Supporters of the Aboriginal artists of Central Australia since 1987, the Mbantua Art Gallery’s Todd Mall shop houses some of the best samples of Indigenous art in Alice Springs. Learn more about this fascinating culture at the Gallery’s Cultural Museum, where you can see boomerangs, spears, and other artifacts and objects collected around the Northern Territory.
Encouraged to paint a mural on a blank building wall by a local school teacher in 1971, the Papunya Tula artists were the founders of the modern western and central desert art movement. This gallery showcases the work of some of the area's best.
Held every other Sunday morning from 9 am until around 1 pm, mid-February to December, the markets feature more than 100 stalls of local arts, crafts, and food, which are displayed while musicians entertain.