The artwork conveys tracks of the Mina Mina ancestral women, as they walked on foot over sand hills (red dots), water soakages (blue dots) and claypans, significant in the area of Mina Mina .

Throughout their journey the Mina Mina women used digging sticks to define the land, performed ceremonies, which embraced many song lines and dance cycles.

If you would like to know more about Sand Hills 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 the book, DANCING UP COUNTRY, The art of Dorothy Napangardi, published by Museum of Contemporary Art, which illustrates in detail Dorothy Napangardi’s Dreamings.