Acrylic on linen

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Ngaminya, just to the south-west of the Kiwirrkura Community in Western Australia. In ancestral times a group of women travelled to Ngaminya from the west and later held ceremonies relation to the area. The women also collected the edible berries known as kampurrarrpa or desert raisin, which grow on the small shrub Solanum centrale. These berries can be eaten straight from the bush but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked in the coals to form a type of damper. The rocky outcrop at the site is said to have been formed from mounds of these berries. Upon completion of the ceremonies at Ngaminya the women continued their travels east to Wirrulnga.