It is named after a knee-shaped water-filled rock hole at the base of Uluṟu, and is located in the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park.

[citation needed] Maruku Arts & Crafts is a large and successful Aboriginal Australian-owned and -operated enterprise, run by Anangu (people of the Western and Central Deserts of Australia) since about 1990.

It has a warehouse based in Mutitjulu, a retail gallery at Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park Cultural Centre, as well as a market stall in Yulara town square.

With about 900 artists in the collective, it provides an important source of income living in remote communities across central Australia.

They have performed at the Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs, at a NAIDOC event in Mutitjulu, at Voyagers resort in Yulara.

The level of English literacy by Mutitjulu residents is higher than in many Indigenous Australian communities primarily due to the regular exposure to tourists at Uluṟu.

[citation needed] The local Indigenous community from 1990 requested that visitors respect the sacred status of Uluṟu by not climbing the rock, with signs posted to this effect in late 1989.

Traditional owners who had been forced out of the national park returned and settled at Mutitjulu, and worked towards restoring their land rights.