This painting depicts Awelye. The women apply body paint designs to their upper body and thighs from ground ochre, charcoal and ash. Body paint designs or markings have been applied to womens bodies for over forty thousand years and is known as the world's oldest living culture. Women's ceremonies include many song lines and dance cycles and they generally occur at spiritually significant places. At these sites often the women will draw depictions in the sand, which now is transferred onto canvas or modern artists materials. These ceremonies are extremlet important too because the women pay homage to their country and Dreaming story they are attached to.