Mina Mina Jukurrpa A13393 Lindsay Bird Mpetyane The ceremony is womenʼs business

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

Year: 2008

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

with the oval shapes representing the swamps and lakes near her homelands in Central Australia

Mina Mina Jukurrpa A13393 Lindsay Bird Mpetyane The ceremony is womenʼs businessYear: 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,