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  important aboriginal art auction • melbourne • 25 march 2009

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172 DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Mina Mina), 2003
born c1950
synthetic polymer paint on linen
104.5 x 118.5 cm
signed verso: together with artist's name, size and
Gallery Gondwana catalogue number 7666DN

ESTIMATE: $18,000 – 25,000

PROVENANCE
Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs (stamped verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
from Gallery Gondwana which reads in part, 'This painting
depicts a major women's ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artists'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 other) 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.'


 
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