Yarla Jukurrpa by Pamela and Linda Napurrurla Walker, 150x61cm

Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming) by Pamela and Linda Napurrurla Walker is a dynamic work collaborative artwork between the two sisters Pamela Napurrurla Walker and Linda Napurrurla WalkerThis artwork is about women's ceremony Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming).

It is when the Napurrurla and Nakamarra women get together and with their digging sticks in search for Yarla (yam), where they pay homage to the spirit of Bush Potato plant, through song lines and dance cycles.

The meandering lines depicts the root system and the branches of the bush potato plant (you can see the bush potato at the end of each branch). The circle in the centre of the canvas represents the hole, where the women must dig to find the roots of the potato plant. The potatoes are gathered and carried in coolamons (wooden dishes) and are cooked in hot coals at the camp-site.

Jukurrpa is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people and other language groups in Central Australia. In broad terms it means "Dreaming" where Jukurrpa is about the creation period when the ancestral beings created the world as it is now. It describes the relationship between people, plants, animals and the physical features of the landscape, the knowledge of how these relationships came to be, their meaning and how they need to be maintained in daily life and in ceremony.