The artwork conveys significant sites such as sand hills, spinifex country, water soakages, claypans and salt lakes. These places carry deep spiritual meaning and are associated with Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa .

In the Dreamtime the Mina Mina ancestral women walked on foot across the significant site salt on Mina Mina shaped the landscape with digging sticks, performed ceremonies, which embraced many song lines and dance cycles.

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

• Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories
• Yuendumu Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Desert
• Warlpiri women dancing during ceremony

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