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Mina Mina Jukurrpaby Patrick Japangardi WilliamsThis Jukurrpa comes from Mina Mina, a very important women’s Dreaming site far to the west of Yuendumu near Lake Mackay and the WA border. The ‘Kirda’ (owners) of this Dreaming are Napangardi/Napanangka women and Japangardi/Japanangka men; the area is sacred to Napangardi and Napanangka women. There are a number of ‘Mulju’ (water soakages) and a ‘Maluri’ (clay pan) at Mina Mina. In the Dreamtime, ancestral women danced at Mina Mina and Karlangu rose up out of the ground. The women collected the digging sticks and then travelled on to the east, dancing, digging for bush tucker, collecting ‘Ngalyipi’ (snake vine [Tinospora smilacina]), and creating many places as they went. ‘Ngalyipi’ is a rope-like creeper that grows up the trunks and limbs of trees, including ‘Kurrkara’ (desert oak [Allocasuarina decaisneana]). It is used as a ceremonial wrap and as a strap to carry ‘Parraja’ (coolamons) and ‘Ngami’ (water carriers). ‘Ngalyipi’ is also used to tie around the forehead to cure headaches, and to bind cuts. |
ArtistPatrick Japangardi Williams was born in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. Both his mum and dad have since passed away. He has three sisters and one brother, Lindsay Japangardi Williams. He is the grandson of Gayle Napangardi Gibson, an established painter of Warlukurlangu Artists. Patrick grew up in Yuendumu and attended Yirara College, an Aboriginal boarding college in Alice Springs. When he finished school after completing Year 11 he went looking for jobs and was employed in the Shire Housing Project. In 1996 he moved away and is now living in Nyirripi, originally an outstation of Yuendumu but now a small community, 120 km south west of Yuendumu. He is married to Christine Nakamarra Curtis and has 2 children. Patrick began painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu in 2012 after “watching my wife . . . it makes me happy painting”. He paints his grandfather’s Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) and his father’s Mina Mina Jukurrpa. Stories which relate directly to his land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. When he is not painting, he plays football and hunting for goanna. |
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