Lot 240: DOROTHY NAPANGARDI BORN 1956 KARNTAKURLANGU JUKURRPA - SALT ON MINA MINA 1992 122 by 61 cm each panel (122 by 122 cm overall) Synthetic polymer paint on linen Both panels signed 'Dorothy', with Gallery Gondwana stamp and catalogue numbers 7027DN and

DOROTHY NAPANGARDI BORN 1956 KARNTAKURLANGU JUKURRPA - SALT ON MINA MINA 1992 122 by 61 cm each panel (122 by 122 cm overall) Synthetic polymer paint on linen Both panels signed 'Dorothy', with Gallery Gondwana stamp and catalogue numbers 7027DN and 7028DN on the reverse Provenance: Gallery Gondwana Fine Art, Alice Springs Private collection, Queensland Exhibited: One Mother, Dorothy Napangardi and Sabrina Nangala', Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs The accompanying certificate reads in part: 'These paintings depict a major women's ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist's custodial country located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert... During the Jukurrpa Dreamtime) Ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka subsection groups gathered to collect ceremonial digging sticks ( Karlangu) that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance to a place known as Jankinyi. A large belt of trees now stand where these digging sticks once were. Topographically, the sacred site of Mina Mina is made up of two enormous soakage areas that, rarely filled with water, exist as clay- pans. As the water soaks into the ground small areas of earth dry out and lift at the edges becoming delineated by salt. In this striking design...Dorothy depicts the crustations of salt stretching infinitely onward, etched with the tracks of the women as their paths stretch on, crossing and merging; telling their stories'.