Ngapa Jukurrpaby Priscilla Napanangka Brown

The site depicted in this painting in Pirlinyarnu. The owners of this Dreaming are the Nangala and Nampijinpa women and the Jangala and Jampijinpa men. The story tells of two Jangala men, rainmakers who sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm that collided with another storm. The Kirrkarlangji carried the storm further west. The two storms travelled across the country from Karlipirnpa, a ceremonial site for water Dreaming. Along the way the storms passed through important places and before long became to heavy for the falcon to carry. It dropped the water at Pirlinyarnu where it formed an enormous clay-pan. A water soakage exists in this place today. Whenever it rains, hundreds of bush ducks still flock to Pirlinyarnu.

Artist:Priscilla Napanangka Brown
Title:Ngapa Jukurrpa
ID:3015-14
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:30 x 30 cm
Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia

Artist

Priscilla Napanangka Brown comes from Yuendumu Community approximately 300km from Alice Springs in Central Australia. She is an artist with Warlukurlangu Artists, a local Aboriginal art centre located in Yuendumu. Priscilla paints Ngapa Jukurrpa.

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