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Margaret Naapangardi Turner Janyinki Jukurrpa (Janyinki Dreaming) 2008
Acrylic on cotton 910 x 910mm SOLD
This Jukurrpa story is from country called Janyinki, close to Yuendumu. Paintings related to the Janyinki area
often tell stories associated with men's ceremonial activity in that country. The nature of that activity is so
sensitive that no further details can be revealed. On another level, paintings of Janyinki Dreaming also often
relate stories of women travelling through the area collecting bush foods.

In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, associated sites
and other elements. In paintings of this Dreaming, the sites where women collected bush foods are often shown
as concentric circles or roundels. Clapping sticks, used as musical accompaniment to the singing involved in the
men's ceremonial activity, are usually shown as twin parallel lines. Janyinki country is also significant to its
custodians for the various Jukurrpa that pass through the area, including that of the night parrot (Pezoporus
occidentalis), a small parrot considered to be 'critically endangered' and close to extinction, who’s ancestral
home was in the area.