Ngapa (Water/Rain) - 2005, 2009, 2016, 2018
2005 Milpirri - Jarda Warnpa
Ngapa (Water/Rain)
Dance Story
Ngapa did not stay in one place, it went from one place to another, starting from Kurlpurlurnu. The women are dancing as the rain is falling everywhere. When they sit down they are playing in the water with their hands.
Belonging to Skin Groups
Jangala, Jampijinpa, Nangala and Nampijinpa (Blue Group)
2009 Milpirri - Jurntu
Ngapa (Water/Rain)
Dance Story
Jangala throws the wirlki (number 7 boomerang) into the sky. You can see this action in the men's Wirnpa (Lightning) dance. Rain falls down. The rain is the legs of the Milpirri cloud - (wanarri and malpa - thighs and shins). They sit and play in the water with their hands hitting it.
Belonging to Skin Groups
Jangala, Jampijinpa, Nangala and Nampijinpa (Blue Group)
2016 Milpirri - Kurdiji
Ngapa (Water/Rain)
Dance Story
In the place of Jiwaranpa (Talbot Well) there is a big lake.
Belonging to Skin Groups
Jangala, Jampijinpa, Nangala and Nampijinpa (Blue Group)
2018 Milpirri - Jurntu
Nagpa (Water/Rain)
Dance Story
In Wakaya on the Yuendemu side, there is a Jungarrayi man who has a wife from the wrong skin group, (she was a Napangardi, not a Nangala). He got the biggest hiding for this. There was a big fight and he was hit with spears and boomerangs. But after the fight, he still wanted that Napangardi.
Belonging to Skin Groups
Jangala, Jampijinpa, Nangala and Nampijinpa (Blue Group)
Ngapa - Two Cultures On Country
In April 1996 nine Australian artists journeyed into the centre of Australia, into the Tanami Desert, the heartland of the Warlpiri people. Seven were the traditional owners of this country and two were white artists from Tracks. Together with an oral historian and archivist, they followed the section of the 2,000 km Ngapa Jukurrpa (the Rainstorm Dreaming) path that belonged to the late Freddy Jangala Patrick and his family. The Ngapa pathway contains a series of sacred sites that connect Alice Springs to Darwin.
