The artwork depicts Aboriginal women digging for wild carrots and other bush foods using digging sticks and coolamons. The symbols in the painting represent the women sitting in a circle digging up roots with their tools. The story the artwork tells is of the women working hard all day to collect food from the land to bring back and share with their families before nightfall. The paints used were natural clays that give the picture earthy brown and white colors, and the brush was likely a chewed stick.