Title: Salt on Mina Mina
ID: 09111989
Artist: Dorothy Napangardi
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Size: 90x30 cm
This artwork depicts the movement of the ancestral women, as they travelled on foot and marked their homeland with their digging sticks. Significant ceremonies were performed, which even today the Napangardi & Napanangka women regularly gather at the Mina Mina 
site in a ceremony to re-enact this Dreaming story. Here they paint each other’s bodies with Dreaming designs and chant and dance the age old creation story.
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.
If you would like to know more about the Salt on Mina Mina and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles to to view video footage of Warlpiri women dancing during ceremony:
- Aboriginal Women
- Yuendumu Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from Central Desert
- Song and dance - Aboriginal Music
- Aboriginal women dancing - Video of Warlpiri women 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.
An Australian Aboriginal artwork should always be issued with a Certificate of Provenance, also known as a Certificate of Authenticity. This document contains vital information on the artist, as well as details about the artwork itself. When selling on an artwork, please ensure that this document is passed on. Authenticity of Provenance means that the origin or authorship of a work of art has been correctly identified.
Central Art follows a well defined provenance and authenticity process to ensure that we are an exemplar in our business practice . Careful and detailed documentation follows – each work is given a catalogue number, inscribed on the back of the artwork with the Central Art stamped logo, the artist's signature and the title of the work.
Printed on the Certificate of Provenance is a copyright acknowledgement that reads as follows:
This work is copyright. The copyright is owned by the Artist and his/her people. This painting may not be reproduced in part, in whole, or in any other form without the permission of the Artist or his/her inheritors clearly in writing, with all knowledge prior to final proof to the family concerned – then only when clearance has been approved.
Description
This artwork depicts the movement of the ancestral women, as they travelled on foot and marked their homeland with their digging sticks. Significant ceremonies were performed, which even today the Napangardi & Napanangka women regularly gather at the Mina Mina site in a ceremony to re-enact this Dreaming story. Here they paint each other’s bodies with Dreaming designs and chant and dance the age old creation story.
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.
If you would like to know more about the Salt on Mina Mina and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles to to view video footage of Warlpiri women dancing during ceremony:
- Aboriginal Women
- Yuendumu Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from Central Desert
- Song and dance - Aboriginal Music
- Aboriginal women dancing - Video of Warlpiri women 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.
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Medium: Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Size: 90x30 cm
This artwork depicts the movement of the ancestral women, as they travelled on foot and marked their homeland with their digging sticks. Significant ceremonies were performed, which even today the Napangardi & Napanangka women regularly gather at the Mina Mina site in a ceremony to re-enact this Dreaming story. Here they paint each other’s bodies with Dreaming designs and chant and dance the age old creation story.
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.
If you would like to know more about the Salt on Mina Mina and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles to to view video footage of Warlpiri women dancing during ceremony:
- Aboriginal Women
- Yuendumu Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from Central Desert
- Song and dance - Aboriginal Music
- Aboriginal women dancing - Video of Warlpiri women 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.
An Australian Aboriginal artwork should always be issued with a Certificate of Provenance, also known as a Certificate of Authenticity. This document contains vital information on the artist, as well as details about the artwork itself. When selling on an artwork, please ensure that this document is passed on. Authenticity of Provenance means that the origin or authorship of a work of art has been correctly identified.
Central Art follows a well defined provenance and authenticity process to ensure that we are an exemplar in our business practice . Careful and detailed documentation follows – each work is given a catalogue number, inscribed on the back of the artwork with the Central Art stamped logo, the artist's signature and the title of the work.
Printed on the Certificate of Provenance is a copyright acknowledgement that reads as follows:
This work is copyright. The copyright is owned by the Artist and his/her people. This painting may not be reproduced in part, in whole, or in any other form without the permission of the Artist or his/her inheritors clearly in writing, with all knowledge prior to final proof to the family concerned – then only when clearance has been approved.
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