10 AM 5252/07
Peggy Nampijinpa Brown Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa (Fire Country Dreaming) 2007
Acrylic on cotton 610 x 300mm SOLD
This story belongs to Warlukurlangu (Fire Jukurrpa) country to the south-west of Yuendumu, for which the
Jampijinpa/Jangala subsection have custodial responsibility. An old man Lungkarda (Centralian Blue-tongued
Lizard, Tiliqua multifasciata), of the Jampijinpa skin group, lived on a hill with his two Jangala sons. The old
man would feign blindness and send the two boys hunting in search of meat. While they were gone he would
hunt and eat anything that he caught before they returned. One day the sons returned with a kangaroo that
they had caught after much tracking. Unfortunately the kangaroo was sacred to the Lungkarda, unbeknown to
the boys. In his anger the old man decided to punish his sons and the next time they went out, he put his fire
stick to the ground and sent a huge bush fire after them which chased them for many miles at times propelling
them through the air. Although the boys beat out the flames, Lungkarda's special magic kept the fire alive and it
re-appeared out of his blue-tongued lizard hole. Exhausted the boys were overcome by the flames. In
contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and
other elements. Sites that are usually depicted in paintings of this Jukurrpa include warlukurlangu (a men's
cave), Kirrkirrmanu (where the sacred kangaroo was killed) and Wayililinypa (where the fire killed the two
Jangala sons) and marnimarnu (a water soakage) where the two Jangalas camped.