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Catalogue: 23/521
This painting is about the bush medicine plant that grows wild on dry rocky land and near creeks in Central Australia. After a big rain the leaves turn green and Aboriginal women living in remote communities go out and collect the leaves, the plant has a special smell and helps the women find it. The curved shapes in the painting represent women, beside them are their digging sticks and the oval shape is a coolamon, a bowl used in the old days to collect food, seeds and leaves into. The leaves are crushed and can be boiled in water to make healing medicine for pain, skin irritations, coughs, colds and flu. Aboriginal families have been using this plant for generations.