This painting is accompanied by a copy of the certificate of authenticity from Tiwi Design which states:
‘Jirtaka is lovely tucker. My husband used to get that fish and bring him home. After we eat that fish we get that bone and paint him up. First black, then Jilamara (body paint design). Special design only for that one. The first painting my husband did was on that bone. I like to paint this because my husband taught me. It’s pukamani that one. When he die they paint up that bone for ceremony. That bone he pukumani. He body of person now in that ceremony. They put that bone in tunga during pukumani. When I paint that I think of him. I think of him when I paint.’