Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming - Kathleen Petyarre

The artist has depicted the ceremonial site where two of the artists' ancestors' songlines meet. Eastern Anmatjerre men and women conduct important initiation ceremonies here. Each group is forbidden from entering that of another. The centre of the painting is a site associated with the green pea (Antweth). Depicted throughout the painting are the sandhills in the surrounding country.
Kathleen, in common with all Aboriginal people in Utopia, believe that it was Arnkerrth, the small mountain devil Lizard, who created the desert as it is today by moving the sand, grain by grain since the time of the Dreaming.