Mina Mina Dreaming

Name: Mina Mina Dreaming
Brand: Sabrina Napangardi Granites
SKU: WA3389/24
Price: 880.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$880 AUD

Artist:

Sabrina Napangardi Granites

Size:

91cm x 46cm

Medium:

Acrylic on canvas

Orientation

This artwork can be hung landscape or portrait

Mina Mina is an important ceremonial site for Napangardi and Napanangka women, located about 600 km west of Yuendumu near the WA border. The area has a marluri (salt lake), mulju (soakages), sandhills and a stand of kurrkara (desert oaks). Mina Mina Jukurrpa holds significant Warlpiri ritual knowledge, especially regarding the roles of men and women. The kirda (owners) of this country are Napangardi/Napanangka women and Japangardi/Japanangka men.

The story tells of a group of ancestral karnta (women) who travelled from west to east. As they danced at Mina Mina, karlangu (digging sticks) rose from the ground, which they collected and carried on their journey. They wore majardi (hairstring skirts), white feathers and yininrti seed necklaces, and anointed themselves with minyira (shiny fat) to increase their ritual power. A yinkardakurdaku (spotted nightjar) followed them, calling out as they travelled.

Their dancing raised a cloud of dust that swept up the walyankarna (snake ancestors), blowing them north to Yaturluyaturlu. Here, the women’s Dreaming intersects with the witchetty grub Dreaming, teaching the women how to find and cook witchetty grubs.

As they travelled east, the women visited Kimayi’s desert oaks, passed through sandhill country where yam ancestors battled, and created important sites such as Wakakurrku, where their digging sticks became mulga trees. At Lungkardajarra they became homesick and split up - some travelling east to Yarungkanyi and beyond, others north to Karntakurlangu before all eventually returned to Mina Mina.

Mina Mina Jukurrpa highlights ancestral knowledge, gender roles and ritual responsibilities. In Warlpiri painting, sinuous lines represent ngalyipi (snakevine), circles show jintiparnta (desert truffle), and straight lines depict karlangu (digging sticks).

Artists Biography

Sabrina is the daughter of Alma Nungarrayi Granites (Dec) and the grand-daughter of Paddy Japaljarri Sims (Dec) and Bessie Nakamarra Sims (De), two of the founding artists of Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu. Yuendumu is a remote Aboriginal community located 290 kms north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. The art centre is one of the oldest, continually operating art centres in the Central Desert of Australia.

Sabrina was born in 1972 in Yuendumu and attended the local school. She is married and has two daughters whom she is raising. Sabrina has been painting with the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre since 1997. She paints the Dreaming stories passed to her from her grandfather and grandmother. They include Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming); Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women’s Dreaming); and Ngalyipi Jukurrpa (Snake Vine Dreaming). She has worked for the art centre helping with distributing canvas, paints and brushes. Occasionally she goes hunting with her family around Yuendumu collecting bush foods.

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