Gordon Ikantji (c. 1930- 2016) was a senior painter, cultural and religious leader at the Ernabella community where he came to live having lived a highly traditional early life on his Pitjantjatjara lands. His main painting theme, shown in leading galleries around Australia was concerned with the highly significant creation site of Pilati and the events that occurred in and around the rock hole as depicted in this painting.  "Here lived two sisters who married two brothers and they all lived together. One day the women went wandering and they went such a long way that they forgot about their husbands. Back at the camp, the two husbands were thinking ‘Where are our wives?’ and they decided to go looking for them. On brother said the the other, ‘What should we become to go looking for them?’ and the other brother said ‘Why don’t we become Rainbow Serpents?’. And they travelled in the sky looking down for their wives. Finally, they see them hunting for carpet snakes and they put something in the hole where the women were digging. The women find it and then dig another hole and once again the men have put something in there. And this is how the men lure the women back to PIltati where the men make the sisters transform into Wanampi (Rainbow Serpents), swallow them and keep them in their throats. All four of them live together in the waterhole and still live there."