DBY 22. Jintipanta, Betsy Napangardi Lewis, 2003, 42 x 12 inches, 106 x 30 cms.

Napangardi and Napanangka women are collecting Jintipanta at Karnakarlangu. The area is also called Mina Mina. Ancestral women traveled from here north through Janyinki and other places, then east through to Alcoota country.

Mina Mina is a ceremonial place belonging to Japanangka, Japangardi men and Napanangka Napangardi women and their associated land continues far to the west of Yuendumu in Sandhill country. There are a number of mulju (water soakages) at Mina Mina as well as a clay pan where the women dance and perform ceremonies. As a result of these dances digging sticks rose up out of the water holes at Mina Mina which the women carried with them on their long journey eats. They danced and sang the whole way with no sleep. The women collected many bush foods along the way, the circles represent a bush fruitcalled jinitpanta or bush truffles.