KARNTAKURLANGU JUKURRPA (MINA MINA), 2003

Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
25 March 2009
172

DOROTHY NAPANGARDI

born c.1950
KARNTAKURLANGU JUKURRPA (MINA MINA), 2003

synthetic polymer paint on linen

104.5 x 118.5 cm

signed verso: together with artist's name, size and Gallery Gondwana catalogue number 7666DN

Estimate: 
$18,000 - 25,000
Sold for $14,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 7 - 25 March 2009, Melbourne
Provenance

Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs (stamped verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

Catalogue text

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Gallery Gondwana which reads in part, ‘This painting depicts a major women's ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artists's custodial country, located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. During the Jukurrpa ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka sub-section groups (aunt/niece relationship, in which knowledge is passed from one to the other) gathered to collect ceremonial digging sticks (karlangu) that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance, to the place known as Jankinyi. A large belt of trees (Casuarina decaisneana) now stand where these digging sticks once were.’