Artist: Cherylyn Napangardi Granites
Title: Jintiparnta Jukurrpa (Desert Truffle Dreaming) Mina Mina
Area: NT
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30cm x 30cm

Certificate of Authenticity included with painting
Unstretched

Artwork: This ‘Jukurrpa’ (Dreaming) comes from Mina Mina, a very important women’s Dreaming site far to the west of Yuendumu near Lake Mackay and the WA border. The ‘kirda’ (owners) of this Dreaming are Napangardi/Napanangka women and Japangardi/Japanangka men. The Mina Mina Jukurrpa is an important source of Warlpiri ritual knowledge and social organisation, particularly relating to the different roles performed by man and women.

When the women danced at Mina Mina, they created a large dust cloud that swept up the ‘walyankarna’ (snake ancestors). The ‘walyankarna’ had previously transformed themselves from  witchery grubs into snakes at Kunajarrayi (Mount Nicker,  200km southwest of Yuendumu)

Desert Truffle Dreaming