This painting depicts designs associated with the soakage site of Murmur, on the southern edge of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) in Western Australia. The lines in this painting represent the sandhills...
This painting depicts designs associated with the soakage site of Murmur, on the southern edge of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) in Western Australia. The lines in this painting represent the sandhills and rocky outcrops surrounding this site. In ancestral times a group of women travelled to this site from Wirrulnga, near the artist's home community of Kiwirrkura, and collected the edible berries known as kampurarrpa or desert raisin from 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. Upon completion of the ceremonies at Murmur the women continued their travels to Wilkinkarra.