The painting depicts Aboriginal Symbols, illustrating the ancestral possum track (E), the journey path created by the possums tail, as they travelled to and from the waterholes (concentric circles).

Other icons represented are: -

• man with fire-stick (centre)
• man with shield and hunting boomerangs (top and bottom)

To learn more about Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories or Aboriginal Symbols and their Meanings visit our art and culture section.

We recommended the book Warlukulangu Artists, Yuendumu Doors. Kuruwarri, copyright Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies 1987.
Paddy Stewart Japaljarri is recognised as one of the artists referred to in the book.