This painting was considered “restricted” for many years. In early paintings like this one, artists included overt references to secret ceremonial information related to the sites they depicted. This caused controversy because some ceremonies are private and neighboring communities had different standards of secrecy and authority. This work was approved for exhibition in 2018 by the artist’s only surviving son. It depicts the place where the artist’s spirit was conceived in his mother’s womb, a place where an ancestral being created hills by throwing sacred objects into a cave. The oblong figure on the right represents both the hills and the ceremonial object that created them.

My father was like a teacher. He was the one who taught the other men all about Ngurrapalangu. This man here, my father. He was showing them what he knew, sharing his knowledge and then he passed away. All these people, they knew my father could sing all the songs right through.