KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINA MINA

 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON
MINA MINA,  2015
180 x 60 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
 
PROVENANCE
Lajamanu, NT
Warnayaka Art Centre, NTCoo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, NSWPrivate Collection, NSW 
 
STORY
Mina Mina is near Lake Mackay. Its main dreaming story is the karrpanu, the digging stick, famously recorded in the Kanakurlangu clan group dreaming songline. Warlpiri call that songline yupunju. The women travelled eastward into Anmatyerre tribe lands in the Jukurrpa, by being, the sky and earth, night and day women created or gave birth to almost everything bringing them into existence. From raining clouds, waterholes, waterways, everything was danced and sung into existence. Then everything was left to be dug up with the karrpanu so one could feed on the knowledge about everything within the Warlpiri homelands. The ultimate karrpanu is the pointer stars near the Southern Cross stars. When the pointer star touches down in the horizon then the Warlpiri learning cycle begins again.
 
EXHIBITED
Marking Memories, March 2016, Coo-ee Art Gallery