Description

Dorothy depicts her mother’s story of Karinyarra (Mt Wedge), located half way between Papunya and Yuendumu North of Haasts Bluff. In the Dreamtime, the fresh water flowed from these rock holes and into the lake where it become salt water. The rock holes are a place of bush onion dreaming (yalka). Here, the women dig for bush onions. Karinyarra is surrounded by many sacred sites.

Dorothy was passed down the rights to paint her great-grandmother’s Tjukurrpa from this country from her father, Timmy Jugadai.

The rainbow snake came down to Mt Wedge from the north/east. When it arrived at Mt Wedge it covered some or the waterholes and made big sandhills. Now there is only one waterhole that sometimes has water in it. This is because the snake remains there and can take and put back the water. The Nakamarra women are the traditional owners of this country and it is with their song that they can sing up the snake to bring water again.