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Doris Bush Nungarrayi Papa Tjukurrpa (Dog Dreaming) Nyumannu 2010
Acrylic on Belgian linen 1830 x 1525mm $6540
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.