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JUDY WATSON NAPANGARDI c.1935 - 2016 Untitled, 1999 acrylic on linen 106 x 61 cm bears cataloguing details verso PROVENANCE Warlukurlangu Artists, Northern Territory, Cat No. 3/99 acquired from the above during art collecting trip 1999 The Collection of Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO and Sir Nicholas Shehadie AC OBE, Sydney, New South Wales 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 sticks, the women began their travels eastward, performing ceremonies and creating 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, 2026