| Description: |
Gracie has painted some of her
grandmother's dreaming, located in country far to the south of Balgo in
The Great Sandy Desert.
This painting depicts part of a Tjukurrpa (Dreaming)
story for Gracie's grandfather. A Nungorrayi woman came across two children
playing without their parents, so she told the children to hide in a hole
while she looked for their parents. Nungorrayi (the brown U shape) went
looking, and came across a cave.
From inside the cave came a roaring noise, so she went
in to investigate. Inside she found two angry snakes, one was a king brown,
the other was a carpet snake.
She grabbed the brown snake and bit its head off, made
a fire and ate it. |