The artist depicts Karntakurlangu, the Digging-stick Women's Dreaming associated with the site of Mina Mina.
During the Jukurrpa, ancestral Napangardi and Napanangka women of the aunt/niece relationship, in which knowledge is passed from one generation to another, gathered to perform the ceremonies and take-up ceremonial digging sticks (kuturu) that had emerged from the ground at a place called Mina Mina (nest nest).
After they left Mina Mina, the digging stick women stopped at Ngalyipimalu, Vines, a men's Dreaming site. This is where events took place that are the focus of this particular painting.
The ancestral women had spears and boomerangs for hunting but the men only had digging sticks until the ancestral Goanna arrived at the Vine site. He put his shield down and brought it to the men and then cut the men's hair and spun it to make long fine strings, which he ochred, made into a headband, decorated with bandicoot tail feathers and gave to the women.
