I have answered a series of questions in connection with this painting of Life on Lake Mungo:
How many people are there?
A) There are 20 people in this picture of Lake Mungo, 15 adults and 5 children
What are their approximate ages?
A) I think these people in the picture are from ages 1 to 85. They are from all different generations of life
What gender are they?
A) There are a mixture of men and women
What different tasks are they doing?
A) They are catching fish, preparing food to eat, starting fires to cook food and hanging freshly caught fish on a wooden stick ready to cook
What food do they have?
A) They have different types of fish, frogs, dinosaurs, frogs, plants and fruit
What is the environment like?
A) It is next to water and a tropical rainforest. They catch and cook their own food and make their own clothes out of leaves and bark. They create their own shelter and learn to adapt to their surroundings.
What are the relationships between the people?
A) They seem like they are all a family. They teach each other and help each other to survive. The children would learn to adapt to the surroundings just like their parents did and learn to hunt and cook food at a young age.
What tools and weapons do they have?
A) They have fishing nets, spears and rocks.
How are they preparing food?
A) They are hanging the fish on wooden branches, they are setting up a fire to cook the food and they are letting the food rest before they cook it.
What other natural resources are they using?
A) The natural resources they are using are branches, leaves, sticks, rocks, bark, fish and grass.
What shelter do they have?
A) They have small huts made from grass, leaves and bark to shelter them.
What skills do they have?
A) They have lots of different skills that are vital when living in an environment such as this one such as hunting, cooking, making shelter, making fire and fishing skills.
What attitudes/ values/beliefs do they have?
A) They have a attitude to also help and support one another to help keep each other alive. They believe working together they will survive and continue to keep their family alive.