My Great Great Grandmothers Land, Style B, Indigenous Painting On Canvas By Azeza Possum

Original Indigenous hand-painting by Azeza Possum

The Great Great Grandmother's Land depicts motifs that give symbolic form to tribal women engaged in cultural activities in a desert environment known as Yuelamu, which the women inherited from their Ancestral Grandmother, who traveled to this Anmatyerre site in the Tanami Desert during the Dreamtime, at Creation.

Represented as symbolic U-shapes, the women are shown in different areas collecting wild-growing bush food, which is given form through star-like shapes that represent berry bushes, while clusters of pool encased small dots and large dots serve to represent various types of berries and bush plums that the women collect. 

This painting has many secret and sacred landmarks and iconography but also includes the important fire, bush tucker, and waterholes that are imperative to the women.