Dancing Women by Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, 76x122cm Cat 9084MN

This is love magic story. It concerns a Tjapangardi man who spins a hair string from hair singing the woman of his desire. In this painting women of the Napanangka and Napangardi sub-section groups are dancing in a ceremony for this love story.

The site depicted is Mitjili's father's country consisting of low out crops of oxide sandstone and gibbered claypans, within the Wilkinkarra district between Wirnparrku and Kirrikurra submerged in the sandhills among golden spinifex, where Mitjili's father first came into contact with Europeans on horseback.