Deutscher and Hackett

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Private collection, Victoria

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists which states:
'This painting depicts a ground design for the celebration of the Water Dreaming at a site called Mikantji, west of Yuendumu Settlement. The mythological Rain Dreaming trails can be traced over hundreds of kilometres. It is "marked" by a series of rockholes, claypans and soakage waters, and each site is considered to have come into being at the time of the ancestral creative storms. The arcs represent boomerangs and the straight bars are ceremonial body scars.'