Mina Mina Jukurrpa A13393 Lindsay Bird Mpetyane Nowadays the Warlpiri women go

Nowadays the Warlpiri women go out on food gathering trips and teach the children which berries to collect and how to locate the goanna holes

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

Size: 127 x 79cm

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

This region is changed with the spiritual presence of the 'water snake' which lies beneath the surface

Mina Mina Jukurrpa A13393 Lindsay Bird Mpetyane Nowadays the Warlpiri women goYear: 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,