Description
Medium: Screenprint
Edition Size: 99
Studio: Basil Hall Editions Darwin, NT
Image size: 940 x 760
Paper size: 980 x 800
Paper: Magnani Prescia
This screen print 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 othyer) 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 trees (Casuarina Decaisneana) now stand where these digging sticks once were.
This screen print shows yet another development int he ever-evolving style of Dorothy Napangardi. As with all of this artist’s works, this painting revolves around the sacred site of Mina Mina, the land in the remote Tanami Desert of which Dorothy is a custodial owner. Made up of two enormous soakage areas and endless sandhills. Here Dorothy and her aunts (Napanangkas) perform rituals of dance and song as part of their passing on of Jukurrpa.
