67 AM 3804/06
Sam Juparulla Wickman Two Sisters Dancing (Morning) 2006
Acrylic on canvas 1800 x 550mm SOLD
Two Sisters Dancing
This story starts zigzagging in black & white ceremony in Luritja country, and then goes east 780km to east
Arrente and then goes in a straight line to Lilla (Kings Canyon, southern perimeter in Willy Wagtail country) and
then on to the eastern side of Uluru zigzagging across the landscape. It then goes on to Blackstone which
Yankuntjatjara/Pitjantjatjara country.
This painting depicts the south western MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs up to Ross River. This series of
hills form together a mountain range which is known as the Dancing Lubras. The hills depict the breasts of the
women as they danced this journey. As they danced at the same time the Nakamara women squeezed their breasts
and fed all the stories up there in the sky and that formed the Milky Way. This is story about nourishment. The
skies are an important part of Sam's Two Sisters Dancing series as they show the landscape and the sky at
different times of the day or night.
At the same there was a little boy playing with mud. This formed Uluru.
All these stories relate to the heavens and the earth.
Women are important in the male initiation process. They are ones who lift the country up and the spirits up and
who travel around gathering the young men or initiation. They dance continually for days and nights across the
country non stop and thos painting depicts just one element of that ceremony.