Karntakurlangu 2005 by Dorothy Napangardi 30x30cm 9386DN

This small gem titled Karntakurlangu (Women's Dreaming), 2005 by Dorothy Napangardi 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 belt of desert oak trees ( Allocasuarina decaisneana ) now stand where these digging sticks once were.

Painting will be freighted on the stretcher frame ready to hang