Tingari Dreaming Cycle - Nyanyuma Napangardi

Nanyuma Napangati is a Pintupi senior law woman and depicts designs associated with women's ceremonies.

She was born c.1944 in Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia. In 1999, Nanyuma was one of the artists involved in the Kiwirrkurra women's painting project, which culminated in the first auction to raise money for the Renal Dialysis Unit at Kintore, an Aboriginal Community in the Western Desert.

The Tingari Cycle is a secret song cycle sacred to initiated men and women. The Tingari are Dreamtime beings who travelled across the landscape performing ceremonies to create and shape the country. They gathered at these sites for Maliera (initiation) ceremonies. The sites take the form of, and are located at, significant rockholes, sand hills, sacred mountains and water soakages in the Western Desert. Tingari may be poetically interpreted as song-line paintings relating to the songs of the people and creation stories of places in Pintupi mythology.