Women's Ceremony Dancing Feather, Style A

‘Women’s Dancing Ceremony’ represents women’s ceremonial sites surrounding Tjukurla in the western desert of Central Australia - traditional homelands to the artist. Ceremonial sites carry a deep spiritual meaning and it is where the women narrate their sacred Aboriginal dreamtime stories, through song lines, dance cycles and body paint. The painting shows fresh water soakages, and rock holes that are carved into the bedrock and supply drinking water in times of drought. The vegetation includes Spinifex grass, wild bush wheat, as well as the bush tucker which grows underground as sweet yams.