Yukultji Napangati Untitled

This painting depicts designs associated with Yunala, a rock hole and soakage-water site situated among sandhills to the west of Kiwirrkurra in Western Australia. During mythological times, a group of ancestral women camped here after travelling from the west, and while here they dug for the edible roots of the bush banana or silky pear vine (Marsdenia australis), also known as yunala. The women later continued their travels to the east, passing through the Kiwirrkurra area on their way to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay in Western Australia). The lines in this painting represent both the sandhills and the yunala.

Yukultji Napangati, 2021