JEANIE NAPANGARDI LEWIS - MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) - NGAL ...
JEANIE NAPANGARDI LEWIS
MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) -
NGALYIPI, 2015
107 x 107 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
REGION
Yuendumu, NT
PROVENANCE
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, NT
Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
STORY
This Dreaming comes from Mina Mina, a very important women’s Dreaming site far to the west of Yuendumu, near Lake Mackay and the Western Australian border. There are a number of ‘mulju’ (water soakages) and a ‘maluri’ (claypans) at Mina Mina.
In the Dreamtime, ancestral women danced at Mina Mina and ‘karlangu’ (digging sticks) rose up out of the ground. The women collected the digging sticks and travelled to the east, dancing, digging for bush tucker, collecting ‘ngalyipi’ (snake vine), and creating many places as they went. ‘Ngalyipi’ is a rope-like creeper that grows up the trunks and limbs of trees, including the desert oak. It is used as a ceremonial wrap and as a strap to carry coolamons and water carriers. ‘Ngalyipi’ is also used to tie around the forehead to cure headaches and to bind cuts.
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