Mina Mina Jukurrpa A13393 Lindsay Bird Mpetyane Year: 2008

Year: 2008

Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri’s paintings depict her homelands and the wildflowers and bush tucker that grow in the area at Haasts Bluff in Central Australia

with the oval shapes representing the swamps and lakes near her homelands in Central Australia

The Ngalyipi (Snake Vine) grows around gum trees and is collected by the Napangardi and Napanangka women to make straps to cure headaches

The ceremony is womenʼs business and is never conducted in the presence of men

Mina Mina Jukurrpa A13393 Lindsay Bird Mpetyane Year: 2008Year: 2007 Size: 89 x 90cm acrylic on linen This painting shows Judys 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,