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As the collaborative painting that Paddy, his sister Sheila, and Paddy Stewart have been working on begins to take shape, white stars shimmering along its vibrant surface, we begin to find out how the story told by the painting relates to the places we've visited out bush, Paddy's important seasonal campsites — and the deeper spiritual significance of the painting's iconography.

The black band, with a double row of white stars, running through the center of this painting represents a ceremonial pole that was carried in a westerly direction through Paddy's traditional country. The pole itself represents "Munga" or the night sky with the stars in it, and was assembled out of the stars which fell to earth at Yanjilpiri.

A big mob of men carried the pole from Yanjilpiri where we were earlier in the film (when Paddy was singing up the stars in the night), moving along Ethel Creek, the river system around which Paddy's family often camped. This story climaxes in a very special ceremony at it's final destination at the sandhill site of Ngnaripulong.