Janet Long Nakamarra
Ngapa Dreaming
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Janet Long Nakamarra
Ngapa Dreaming
Central Art Aboriginal Art Store
Code: 10092245
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Size: 113x29
Year: 2010
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The lines depicted in this artwork represents the underground flowing water at a Warntaparri, which is a significant place for Warlpiri people in central Australia. It is at this place where ceremonies are performed. They paint their bodies with white ochre and sit singing to invoke the ancestral beings to ensure rain.
The roundels represent the soakages and as each one would dry up the Warlpiri people moved on to another soakage, before digging a hole and covering it with leaves. Overnight the water would settle clear enough to drink.
Ngapa 
is referred to by the Warlpiri people ,rain or water
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