Elizabeth Kauage completed this painting for the exhibition Women and Art in PNG, held at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre in Canberra, Australia, in 2008. At that time, she explained the subject: “One-legged, and often considered helpless and hopeless, works very hard for her survival by working in her vegetable and coffee gardens, and raising her protein by rearing a piglet, that is, breast fed . . . she is unmarried.”