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· Title: THE FIRST STORY COLLECTION "INDANGANGU"

Creator: Ada Andy Napaltjarri & Emily Andy Napaltjarri

· Date Created: 2007

· Location: Karrinyarra, Western Desert, Northern Territory, Australia

· Physical Dimensions: One large painting hung in 2 separated halves 4.25m x 2.54m (2 frames - 2.13m x 2.54m)

· Type: Painting, Acrylic on Linen

· Rights: Karrinyarra Artists

Story: 4.4.3 In the Karnta-karnta dreaming, women danced across the countryside, visiting several sites on the central and western part of the land claimed. One group of the women lived at Kumarlpa (site 2.2). Other women came to the western part of the claim area from Kamparangka on the Haasts Bluff Aboriginal Land Trust. At Yirltinyanu (site 2.1), they stopped and drank water from the rockhole before travelling on to Kumarlpa (site 2.2). At Kumarlpa, they met up with the other Karnta-karnta and performed yawalyu (women’s land-based ceremony). The spring at this site was formed by the Karnta-karnta urinating. The women also performed ceremony and searched for bush tucker at Munganyi (site 2.9). The paperbark trees 32 surrounding that site are said to be the Karnta-karnta. Evidence was given of the Karnta-karnta visiting Palka-karrinya (site 2.10). The women were sitting around the waterhole when a snake, Warnayarra, came out of the waterhole and frightened them away. There was also some evidence of Karnta-karnta ceremony for Marrapinti (site 2.5). There is ceremony and song for the Karnta-karnta dreaming and the country with which it is associated. These are still performed. The design of the snake, Warnayarra, is used by some women, including the sisters Emma Nungarrayi and Maggie Nungarrayi, in body painting for ceremony. Some of the women demonstrated their knowledge of Yirltinyanu (site 2.1) by singing the Wanji Wanji song, which is about a “porcupine” at the site.

Excerpt is from Land Title Claim

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