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Doris Bush Nungarrayi Papa Tjukurrpa (Dog Dreaming) - Nyumannu 2009
Acrylic on cotton 1520 x 1220mm $4578 including resale royalty
Nyunmanu is a Dingo Dreaming site just to the south east of Kintore. Most of the Dingoes and their pups from this place rose up into the
sky and became stars. However the ancestral mother Dingo and her pup had gone out hunting and were too tired to rise up, so they
turned into a large rock that marks the place of this sacred Dreaming.

It is said that if you sleep in this place you will dream of the ancestral puppies. The story goes that if you remove one of the gleaming
stones found at Nyunmanu, the puppies will haunt your dreams until you return it to the place where it belongs. The custodians of this
Tjukurrpa are Nungarrayi, Tjungarrayi, Napaltjarri and Tjapaltjarri women and men.

The circles in this story often represent important waterholes. The roundels extending from the circles are the designs the women paint on
their breasts.