Minamina Dreaming – Minamina Jukurrpa
Minamina is near Lake Mackay. It’s 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. In this painting, Judy Napangardi Martin has included the 3 countries the ladies danced through. From Minamina they went east into the morning sun on the horizon. They finished up near the Stuart Hwy. From there the dancing ladies returned to Minamina travelling underground.
