Ngapa (Water) Jukurrpa – Pirlinyarnu

$3,300.00

The site depicted in this painting is Pirlinyarnu (Mt. Farewell), about 165 km west of Yuendumu. Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm that collided with another storm from Wapurtali at Mirawarri. A kirrkarlanji (brown falcon) carried the storm further west from Mirawarri. The two storms travelled across the country from Karlipirnpa, a ceremonial site for the Water Dreaming near Walungurru (Kintore). Along the way the storms passed through Juntiparnta. The storm eventually became too heavy for the falcon. It dropped the water at Pirlinyarnu, where it formed an enormous maluri (claypan). A mulju (soakage) exists in this place today. Whenever it rains today, hundreds of ngapangarlpa (bush ducks) still flock to Pirlinyarnu.