This painting depicts the Marlu Jukurrpa (red kangaroo [Macropus rufus] Dreaming from Yarnardilyi and Jurnti (Mt Dennison area). 'Marlu' are highly valued as a food source by Warlpiri people. In the story of this painting an old ancestral kangaroo named Warlawee, who made its camp at Jurnti and moves from place to place - hunting during the day and returning at night to the camp, which it has formed by digging depressions in the soft ground. Warlawee travelled around large areas of country
looking for their preferred foods, which include 'yukuri' (fresh green growth) and 'yulkardi' (desert cucumber [Mukia micrantha]) a low growing herb found underneath 'mulga' trees which is used by Warlpiri people for medicinal purposes. He is thinking about having a ceremony for men. Women are not permitted to dance in this ceremony.