Deutscher and Hackett

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Gallery Gondwana which reads in part, ‘This painting depicts a major women's ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artists's custodial country, located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. During the Jukurrpa ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka sub-section groups (aunt/niece relationship, in which knowledge is passed from one to the other) gathered to collect ceremonial digging sticks (karlangu) that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance, to the place known as Jankinyi. A large belt of trees (Casuarina decaisneana) now stand where these digging sticks once were.’