Acrylic on Linen

This painting depicts designs associated with the soakage water site of Yuwalki, south-east of the Kintore Community. In ancestral times women came to this site to perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. They also spun hair-string for making hair-string skirts which are worn during ceremonies. As they travelled the women gathered large quantities of the edible fruit known as pura (also known in Pintupi as pintalypa), or bush tomato, from the small shrub Solanum cheppendalei. This fruit is the size of a small apricot and, after the seeds have been removed, can be stored for long periods by halving the fruit and skewering them onto a stick.