This artwork depicts the tracks of the travelling women from the Dreamtime, as they crossed the desert to reach to the Mina Mina Site.

Even today the Warlpiri women regularly gather at this site in a ceremony to re-enact this Dreaming story. Here they paint each other’s bodies with Dreaming designs and chant and dance the age old creation story. The ancient Mina Mina site is the birth place, where the digging sticks emerged from the ground.

If you would like to know more about the Travelling Women and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:

• Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories
• Yuendumu Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Desert