Nyilyari Tjapangati is a member of the Papunya Art Centre and lives in Kintore (on the border between the Northern Territories and Western Australia). Her work represents the ancestral stories of the Tingari relating to numerous sacred sites. The Tingari were a group of ancestral beings who travelled across vast expanses of land during the Tjukurrpa or Dreamtime, the time of Creation for the Aborigines.

During these journeys, they performed numerous rituals and created more than one sacred site. The stories of the Tingari are commemorated in many song cycles and important ceremonies. As the events associated with the Tingari cycle are secret in nature, very few further details are provided by the artists who dedicate a work to them.

All we know is that this work depicts an episode in which the Tingari visited Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) on their way east. They had come from Winparku (Mount Webb), further south.