Emma MacNeill can hardly believe a "barefoot kid from the bush" will stitch herself into AFLW history - for herself, her daughters, her mob and all other Indigenous women and girls.

MacNeill designed 'Yurntal' for all puutpulas (ball, in Martu Wangka language) to be used during the league's Indigenous Round.

She couldn't chase the opportunity to reach for the highest level in footy, but her daughters, future Carlton and Brisbane father-daughter potentials, can.

That's important.

"I wanted a ball that actually represents the future. We're all daughters…a lot of us missed out on the opportunity to play football," MacNeill said.

Soon to be a decade's worth of players have "made that path for the next generation", she told National Indigenous Times.

"Your Kirby Bentleys, Ally Andersons… have shown it's a safe place for other girls to come and enjoy the game.

MacNeill is a modern Desert artist and Martu woman born in Kunnanurra, now based in Magandjin (Brisbane).

You're practically born with a footy in your hands in Western Australia, she said.

As a player MacNeill lifted a premiership cup within her nine years with QAFL club Wilson Grange.

Growing up, options to play sport were more or less netball or softball, she said, despite football being a big part of her life through family.

Within Yurntal, circles represent "where we are from, our diverse identities, acknowledging that we come from different places and raising different families" as well as "our ability as women to bond and connect with each other, to support each other through thick and thin, and uplift each other... So it's our love for the game".

The 'U' shapes, MacNeill explained, represent "our families, the volunteers, the supporters who come to the game this week in, week out".

"But mainly they're to recognise past players and our family who have really put in the hard yards to get us to where we are today," she said.

For her, Indigenous Round is when Indigenous players and people nationwide can be most proud to be seen, and for others to recognise the thousands of years of history of the Country on which they walk.

"It's a really good round to actually stand before yourself, before your teammates, and acknowledge that there's a really deep history here," MacNeill said.

"There's been a lot of mob who have come up playing football, who paved pathways for us to be able to be a part of the game safely and in a healthy way. So for my children, it's a moment where they can actually stand and feel proud of who they are."

The design, in partnership with Sherrin, will be used throughout the next two weeks of AFLW matches.

Close to 100 puutpulas have been stitched together.

Size 3 footies with more detail are available for purchase at Rebel sport and Sherrin's website.

MacNeill said it was important acknowledge her grandfather, mum and sister's assistance with the name.

"That ball not only represents me and my little family and all the beautiful, deadly sistergirls that are around me and in our baby's lives. It represents my heritage, my Martu family," she said.

"Life out that way is pretty hard, and so seeing something like this just brings a little bit of joy to know that we've been represented. To know that there's right in the heart of Western Australia is the ball of Martu mob, and to know they've been represented on the ball was huge.

"For me personally, being a part of something that I've cherished for such a long time is huge. Like I said to the team at Sherrin, it's hard to believe that this little barefoot kid from the bush has created something that is going to go down in AFLW history. That's locked in, that's there forever.

"My girls may one day get to be a part of that."