Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa by Dorothy Napangardi, Limited Edition Etching Cat DN-4.4

This limited edition etching depicts a major women’s ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist’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 stand of Desert Oaks ( Allocasuarina decaisneana ) now grow where these digging sticks once were.

In this etching the artist has created striking black, grey and white designs depicting the ancestral women dancing across the country of Mina Mina across the terrain, around the soakages of Mina Mina and the crustations that form when rainwater recedes, through the spinifex clumps and over the sand hills.

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Curators Note:
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