Artist: Selina Napanangka Fisher
Title: Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming)
Aboriginal Nation:
Area: NT
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 76cm x 46cm
Certificate of Authenticity included with painting
Stretched
Artwork: Pikilyi is a large and important waterhole and natural spring near Mount Doreen station. Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming) tells of the home of the two serpents, ancestral heroes who lived together as man and wife. The woman ‘rainbow serpent’ was of the Napanangka skin group, the man was a Japangardi. This was a taboo relationship contrary to Warlpiri religious law.
Women of the Napanangka and Napangardi subsection sat by the two serpents, picking lice off them. For this service, the two serpents allowed the women to take water from the springs ar Pikilyi.
