Desert Country Dreaming | Aboriginal Artwork Painting
Rosina Napurrurla White
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- Artist: Rosina Napurrurla White
- Jukurrpa: Ngapa Jukurrpa - Mikanji
- Catalogue #: 5631/18
- Canvas Size: 46 x 30 cm
- Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
This Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) is associated with Mikanji, a usually dry creek west of Yuendumu that contains several mulju (water soakages). The custodians (kirda) of this Dreaming are Nangala/Nampijinpa women and Jangala/Jampijinpa men. Mikanji is an important Water Dreaming site that features in several interconnected Dreaming tracks.
In one story, the Water Dreaming travelled from Puyurru to a soakage at Mikanji, where it brought a great storm. Two elderly blind Nampijinpa women sitting beside the soakage strained to see the sky and tears formed in their eyes, becoming rain. Their spirits are believed to remain at Mikanji as two ngapiri (river red gum) trees near the soakage.
Another Dreaming track tells how a powerful storm at Mikanji created a soakage when heavy rain formed a hole in the ground. At Mirawarri a kirrkarlanji (brown falcon) carried the storm westward until it became too heavy, eventually dropping it at Pirlinyarnu (Mt Farewell), about 165 km west of Yuendumu, where it formed a large maluri (claypan) that still contains a soakage today.
A third track connects the Water Dreaming with the Pamapardu Jukurrpa (Termite Dreaming). Travelling together from Warntungurru past Warlura, Wirnpa, Kanaralji, Ngamangama and Jukajuka, the termite Dreaming continued west to Nyirrpi while the Water Dreaming moved north. A brown falcon later carried the water tied to its head with hairstring, dropping it at Puyurru to form another soakage before the Dreaming continued north through many sites and into Gurindji Country.
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