Summary

The painting depicts niwuda, sugarbag or the honey in the nests of the native bee. The distinctive diamond pattern represents the internal structure of the bee hive. Those painted with white pigment are full of honey, while the ones painted red have eggs. The band of rarrk or crosshatching across the centre is the beeswax. This work relates to the epic ancestral story of Murayana, the Hunter, and the ancestral home of the artist's clan at Djiliwiri.

Physical Description

A single sheet of bark (Stringybark, Eucalytpus tetrodonta) painted with natural pigments.

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