Billy Thomas Joongoorra

According to the accompanying documentation, "This painting shows Nganoowa Country near Billiluna, Western Australia. In this Country there is a waterhole that was made by young women in the Dreamtime. In the dreamtime some young women started to dance. They kept dancing round and round in a circle until they went into the ground and formed a waterhole. They made the Country there. This waterhole is 'living water' that never dries up and can be visited all year round. The painting shows ever tightening spiral tracks made by the women as they danced themselves into the ground.

Billy Thomas was born in the bush around 1920 near Billiluna, long before his group had any contact with outsiders. He saw his first ‘gadia’ (European person) as a young boy when he was cooking goanna and a stockman rode up and offerred him an apple."