Women digging for witchety grubs and honey ants

This is a painting I purchased  in 1997 from indigenous First Australian, Violet Nagamarra of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory.  These 2 items are much valued in the native diet for their fat and sugar content
and are traditionally collected by women.

The centre circles  represent a meeting place and/or waterhole and the U shapes show 2 women sitting cross legged on the ground (as viewed from above). Beside them are their tools - a digging stick and carrying receptacle each.

I was asked not to frame it, as aboriginal paintings  represent part of Nature which is free and not to be contained or restricted.

Aboriginals from Australia's Red Centre specialise in dot paintings - whilst those of the top end paint mostly in skeletal style.