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Catalogue Number: 24/305
This painting shows Aboriginal women walking out into the bush to look for bush tucker. Their footprints can be seen across the ground, showing the path they take as they move through the desert country.
The women are searching for different desert foods. They look for goannas hiding under the warm sand. They also collect bush tomatoes, which turn yellow or brown when they are ripe and ready to eat. These foods are important in the desert, and women know the right places to find them.
The curved shapes in the painting represent the women sitting on the ground. Beside them are their digging sticks, which they use to search for food under the soil. The women sit together, sharing their knowledge and working as a group, just as their mothers, aunties, and grandmothers did before them.
This artwork celebrates the strong connection Aboriginal women have with their land and the bush foods that have fed families for thousands of years.