JUDY NAPANGARDI WATSON, Mina Mina Jukurrpa, 2006

JUDY WATSON NAPANGARDI Warlpiri language, c.1925 - 2016 Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming), 2006 acrylic on linen 107 x 61 cm bears inscription verso: Warlukurlangu Artists, 107 x 61 cm, 2083/06, Judy Napangardi Watson PROVENANCE Warlukurlangu Artists, Northern Territory, Cat No. 2083/06 Private Collection, Germany Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Warlukurlangu Artists This painting by Judy Watson Napangardi depicts the sacred women's site of Mina Mina, north-west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. Mina Mina is one of the most important places in Warlpiri women's ceremonial geography, a powerful site associated with the journeys of Karnta-Kurlangu, (ancestral women) who traveled together across vast stretches of desert in the Dreaming. According to the Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) narrative, ancestral women first emerged from the ground at Mina Mina, where digging sticks rose from the earth. Gathering these sticks, the women began their travels eastward, performing ceremonies and creating landscape as they went. The site is marked by a large claypan and a series of salt lakes, which are often represented in Napangardi's work by concentric circles, radiating lines, and fields of shifting colour and movement. The central motif in this painting is the Ngalyipi vine, which grows up the trunks and limbs of the Kurrkara (Desert Oak, Allocasuarina decaisneana) trees. Ngalyipi vine is sacred to Napangardi and Napanangka women and has many uses, including as a ceremonial wrap, as a strap to carry Parrajas (wooden bowls) laden with bush tucker and as a tourniquet for headaches. © JUDY WATSON NAPANGARDI / Copyright Agency, 2026

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