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JUDY WATSON NAPANGARDI c.1925 - 2016 Mina Mina, 1995 acrylic on linen 61.5 x 122 cm inscribed verso: Judy Napangardi Watson, Warlukurlangu Artists, 252/95; JNW002 PROVENANCE Warlukurlangu Artists, NT Cat No. 252/95 Private collection, NSW Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 09/11/2005, Lot No. 305 Private collection, SA This painting by Judy Watson Napangardi depicts the sacred women's site of Mina Mina, west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. Mina Mina is one of the most important places in Warlpiri women's ceremonial geography, a powerful site associated with the journeys of karnta (ancestral women) who travelled together across vast stretches of desert in the Dreaming. According to the Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) narrative, ancestral women first emerged from the ground at Mina Mina, where digging sticks rose from the earth. Gathering these karlangu (digging sticks), the women began their epic travels eastward, performing ceremonies and creating features of the landscape as they went. The site is marked by a large claypan and a series of salt lakes, which are often represented in Watson Napangardi's work by concentric circles, radiating lines, and fields of shifting colour and movement. @ JUDY WATSON NAPANGARDI / Copyright Agency, 2025