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DOROTHY NAPANGARDI ROBINSON (CIRCA 1958 -)
Mina Mina, 2000
synthetic polymer paint on linen
300 x 175 cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Vic Commissioned directly from the artist and sold with photographs of the artist creating the work This painting depicts the major women's ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist's custodial country located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert north west of Yuendumu. During the Tjukurrpa ancestral women collected ceremonial digging sticks, Karlangu, that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance, to a place known as Jankinyi. Topographically the site of Mina Mina is made up of two enormous soakage areas that rarely fill with water and exist as claypans. As water soaks in to the ground small areas of earth dry out and lift at the edges, becoming delineated by salt. The lines of white dots represent the salt crystals, which appear as linear tracings across the claypans. In a mythological sense they are thought to mimic the movements and activities of ancestral women as they danced their way across the country encountering others, and taking part in significant events, as related in Dreaming stories about the regions' creation period. The artist was the winner of the 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2001.