Ngapa Jukurrpa
Water Dreaming - Puyurr
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Bess Napanangka Poulson
The site depicted in this painting is Puyurru, West of Yuendumu. In the usually dry creek beds are water soakages or naturally occurring wells. Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm. It travelled across the country, with the lightning striking the land. It met up with another storm from Wapurtali, was picked up by a kirrkarlan (brown falcon) and carried further West until it dropped the storm at Purlungyanu, where it created a giant soakage. At Puyurru the bird dug up a giant snake, warnayarra (rainbow serpent) and the snake carried water to create the large lake, Jillyiumpa, close to an outstation in this country. This story belongs to Jangala men and Nangala women. Curved and straight lines represent the ngawarra (floodwaters). Small circles represent mulju (water soakages) and short bars depicting mangkurdu (clouds). |
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