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Mina Mina Jukurrpaby Polly Anne Napangardi DixonThis Dreaming from from Mina Mina country, a very important women's Dreaming site found near Yuendumu in Centralia Australia. The owners o this Dreaming are the Napangardi/Napanangka women and the Japangardi/Japanangka men. The area is sacred and there are a number of Mulju and claypans at Mina Mina. In the Dreamtime, ancestral women would dance at Mina Mina and digging sticks rose up from the ground. The women collected them and travelled to the east, dancing and digging for bush tucker. They collected Snake Vine and created many places as they went. Snake Vine is used as a ceremonial wrap and as a strap to carry coolamons. It can also be used to tie around the forehead to cure headaches and bind cuts. In Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is often used to represent the Dreaming and other elements. |
ArtistPolly Anne Napangardi Dixon was born in 1980 and comes from Darwin in the Northern Territory. Her family originate from Lajamanu, an Aboriginal community on the edge of the Tanami Desert. As a young girl Polly-Anne's family relocated to Yuendumu, a few hundred kilometers outside of Alice Springs in Central Australia. Over the last 15 years she has held positions working in youth programs and media communications in the community. Polly Anne began painting for Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corportation in Yuendumu in 2006, although she had been introduced to painting long before that, as both her parents (sadly deceased) were also artists. Central Art is excited to host some of Polly Anne's beautiful small artworks in 2017. |
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