The painting depicts the flower, flower stalks and underwater stem of a type of water lily plant that is one of the artist’s clan totems. Waterlilies grow in abundance on the lagoons that surround the Washkuk Hills; their edible seeds provide Kwoma people and their neighbouring river people source of food. The ten rosettes distributed around the edge of the bark depict the plant’s showy flowers. The attached solid white lines represent their stalk and the circular forms in the centre depict the plant’s long underwater stem.