AM 298/02 Madigan Thomas Lollolrjill - Stone Axe 2002
Natural ochre & pigment on canvas 100 x 80 cm $3,300.00

One old woman, her skin name was Naminyji, her bush name Gunawinygill. She was looking for sugarbag around Ginnungarr ( Cattle Creek). She had found a big mob of sugarbag but she got thirsty becaude the sugarbag made her want water. She left her tommy hawk where she was cutting sugarbag because she wanted to come back after she had a drink of water.. She soon came across a small stream with lots of fish. She decided to cut some spinifix and roll it up and catch the fish the traditional way by making  spinifex fish trap. She did this and caught a big mob of fish. Some of her people started to get wooried, wheres that old woman they siad, so they set out to look for her, and soon they found her tommy hawk where she had left it near the sugarbag, but no old woman. The people soon saw smoke and they folllowed the smoke and found the old woman near the creek eating the fat brim she had caught. The brown shape in the centre of the painting is the tommyhawk the old woman left behind. You can see the hills surrounding it where she was cutting the sugarbag. Below this is the firestick place the place where the old woman lit her fire to cook her fish, she used two sticks to make that fire. The red section down the bottom of thepainting is Cattle Creek where she went to get water.