On September 30, 1988, Yanatjarri No. III Tjakamarra delivered this epic painting to Daphne Williams at Papunya Tula Artists’ Walungurru studio. Fred Myers was visiting Walungurru at the time and documented the painting with Yanatjarri. Although titled Muruntji, the painting depicts the ancestral travels of two different ancestral women—indicated by the two separate sets of footprints.

On the left, Yanatjarri depicts the travels of Kutungu in the artist’s Country around Purrungunya, where she encountered two dangerous Wanampi (Water Snakes ancestors). After fleeing the snakes, she made camp bread and seedcake from spinifex grass, normally used for making Kirti (Resin) for spears and other implements. The cake got stuck in her throat—what Yanatjarri referred to as Ngantjarnu (adhering or making your mouth sticky). It burned her insides, and she ran off defecating black stuff as she ran (presumably from the spinifex resin, which is black).

The woman depicted on the right is a different ancestral Snake woman who traveled from near Kaltukatjara (Docker River) to Kiwirrnga (a waterhole that Kutungu would also visit later in her travels). This women is not dangerous and appears with her hunting implements; the thin white line is her Wana (Digging Stick), and two oval shapes are her Wirra (Digging Dishes). At Kiwirrnga, the woman “went into the ground,” leaving her wirra behind, creating hills. The four tasseled forms on the left and right sides of the painting are Mawulyarri, a possum-tail necklace first spun by this ancestral woman.