Veronica Lulu Napangarti

Veronica has painted some of her traditional country, located close to her home community of Mulan. This painting features mungil, a type of seed. It was a common food source when Veronica was younger and before she came to live at Mulan permanently. Mungil is blue and purple when it is raw, turning yellow when cooked. It is washed to get rid of the salty flavour, then ground up to make flour for damper. It is a plant that grows on the clay pans in the area surrounding Paruku (Lake Gregory).
Euan Hills, Art Mob, adds that this shows the mungil flower changing from an indigo/violet colour after flowering, fading through pinks to a soft yellow as it ages. This flower grows on a vine around the edge of the saltwater sections of Lake Gregory, to the south of Halls Creek in Western Australia. The flower has a hard black seed that after harvesting and drying by the women, it is ground to make a flour that is cooked to make damper (bush bread).