Opening Doors into Colourful Dreamtime

A Collection of Fine Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Art - 2008

Opening Doors into Colourful Dreamtime

A Collection of Fine Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Art - 2008

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by MAGGIE NAPALJARRI ROSS of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Miinypa Jukurrpa (Native Fuschia Dreaming). [3977/07] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by MAGGIE NAPALJARRI ROSS of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Miinypa Jukurrpa (Native Fuschia Dreaming). [3977/07] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen)
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MAGGIE NAPALJARRI ROSS

Miinypa Jukurrpa (Native Fuschia Dreaming)
3977/07
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The Dreaming site of Miinypa or Yanyilingi (the Native Fuschia - Eromophila Spp.) is Ngarlu, meaning "Red rock", country to the east of Yuendumu. A Jungarrayi man called Lintipilinti who lived at Ngarlu fell in love with a Napangardi woman, a taboo relation as the woman was his classificatory mother in-law, a forbidden relationship under Warlpiri traditional law.

Lintipilinti fell in love with the Napangardi woman when he saw the large hole in the ground she made when she urinated. Lintipilinti was very impressed and aroused by this and began to wonder how he could woo the Napangardi. He went to Ngarlu and made hair string for her, singing as he worked. The Napangardi woman could not sleep and began to feel sick and she realised that someone was singing Yilpinji (love songs) for her.

A little bird visited that the Napangardi woman every day, was, unknown to her, taking the Jungarrayi’s love songs to her. That bird can still be heard in modern times in the bush - it helps people find certain bush foods and it talks to people when they are lonely, sad or in danger. The force of the Jungarrayi’s love songs pulled the Napangardi woman to Lintipilinti. When the two met again they made love but they were turned to stone, as their relationship was taboo according to Warlpiri religious law. The two can still be seen, as two rocks at Ngarlu today.

During the course of these events in the time of the Jukurrpa the women from Ngarlu who gossiped about the wrong skin love union turned into Miinypa, a plant with small red flowers that have honey inside them, and are delicious to eat, tasting like ice-cream. Ngarlu is a sacred place where Miinypa or Yanyirlingi are still commonly found today.

The Dreaming site of Miinypa or Yanyilingi (the Native Fuschia - Eromophila Spp.) is Ngarlu, meaning "Red rock", country to the east of Yuendumu. A Jungarrayi man called Lintipilinti who lived at Ngarlu fell in love with a Napangardi woman, a taboo relation as the woman was his classificatory mother in-law, a forbidden relationship under Warlpiri traditional law.

Lintipilinti fell in love with the Napangardi woman when he saw the large hole in the ground she made when she urinated. Lintipilinti...