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 ROSLYN NAPALJARRI JONES of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu. [3527/07] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by ROSLYN NAPALJARRI JONES of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu. [3527/07] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen)
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ROSLYN NAPALJARRI JONES

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu
3527/07 (2007)
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming… | 3527/07
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 91 x 30cm | 35.83 x 11.81in
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The site depicted in this painting is Pirlinyarnu (Mt. Farewell), about 165 km west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm that collided with another storm from Wapurtali.

The two storms traveled across the country, from Karlipinpa near Kintore. A Kirrkarlanji (Brown Falcon, Falco berigora) and carried the storm further west until it dropped the storm at Pirlinyarnu, forming enormous Maliri (lake), depicted in this painting - a Mulju (soakage) exists in this place today. At Puyurru the bird dug up a Warnayarra (a Rainbow Serpent) and the serpent carried water with it to create another large lake.

Whenever it rains today, hundreds of Ngapangarlpa (bush ducks) still flock to Pirlinyarnu. The Kirda (custodians) for this Jukurrpa are Jangala and Jampijinpa men and Nangala and Nampijinpa women.

The site depicted in this painting is Pirlinyarnu (Mt. Farewell), about 165 km west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm that collided with another storm from Wapurtali.

The two storms traveled across the country, from Karlipinpa near Kintore. A Kirrkarlanji (Brown Falcon, Falco berigora) and carried the storm further west until it dropped the storm at Pirlinyarnu, forming enormous Maliri (lake), depicted in this painting...