Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa refers to a very significant site at Karntaklurlangu located north of Yuendumu in a fertile area defined by two large pans and numerous water soakages. It is the sacred Mina Mina site and the ancestral home for the Napangardi and Napanangka family groups.

Mina Mina is the birthplace of the digging stick and a large stand of Eucalyptus trees (Casuarina Decaisneana) now stand where tradition says the digging sticks emerged from the ground. The significance of this artwork refers to the women defining the country with digging sticks. The Mina Mina women often stopped and marked particular sites, where ceremonies were performed through song lines and dance cycles and is enshrined in their country.

If you would like to know more about Karntakurlangu Jupurrpa and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles or to view video footage of Yuendumu women dancing during ceremony.

• Aboriginal Women
• Song and dance - Aboriginal Music
• Aboriginal Spirituality
• Yuendumu Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Desert
• Video footage of Aboriginal women from Yuendumu dancing during ceremony

We recommended the book, DANCING UP COUNTRY, The Art of Dorothy Napangardi, published by Museum of Contemporary Art, which illustrates in detail Dorothy Napangardi’s Dreamings.