Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Private collection, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists which states:
'This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Mukula, east of Jupiter Well in Western Australia. During ancestral times a large group of women came from the west and stopped at this site to perform the ceremonies associated with the area. They later continued their travels towards the east, passing through Ngaminya, Kiwirrkura and Wirrulnga on their way to Wilkinkarra. As the women travelled they gathered a variety of bush foods including kampurarrpa berries (desert raisin) from the small shrub Solanum centrale, and pura (bush tomato) from the plant Solanum chippendalei. Kampurarrpa berries can be eaten directly from the plant but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked on the coals as a type of damper. The shapes in the painting represent the features of the country through which the women travelled as well as the bush foods they gathered.'