Judy Watson Napangardi

Mina Mina Jukurrpa A13393

Name: Mina Mina Jukurrpa A13393
Brand: Judy Watson Napangardi
SKU: a13393
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Year: 2007

Size: 89 x 90cm
acrylic on linen

This painting shows Judy’s depiction of “Mina Mina”, her homelands at Yuendumu in Central Australia. It is a place that is rich in bush tucker such as wanakiji (bush plums), yakajirri (bush tomatoes), and wardapi (sand goanna).

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 then travelled on to the east, dancing, digging for bush tucker, collecting Ngalyipi (snake vine), and creating many places as they went. Snake Vine 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. The vine is also used to tie around the forehead to cure headaches, and to bind cuts.

Nowadays the Warlpiri women go out on food gathering trips and teach the children which berries to collect and how to locate the goanna holes.