| This painting tells the Dreamtime
story of two women of the Napurrula and Nakamarra skin groups
who are searching the countryside for bush potatoes.
Bush potatoes grow as roots underground, so the women
must use the digging sticks to find them.
The lines represent the complex root system and branches
of the bush potato plant. The circles throughout the painting are where
the women dig to retrieve the bush potatoes.
The artist is a Senior Custodian for this Dreaming which
took place at Duck Ponds in the Northern Territory, Australia. |
