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Catalogue Number: 26/211
After the rain Aboriginal women in remote Central Australian communities go out hunting for bush foods. This painting is a story about women gathering bush tomatoes.
The women sit together on the land, these are the curved shapes in the painting. Their digging sticks are beside them, these are called yam sticks. Some of the tomatoes are in a coolamon, an oval wooden bowl used in the old days for carrying food.
These bush tomatoes are yellow and ready to eat right away, sometimes the tomatoes dry out in the sun and turn brown, these are still good to eat.
The women learn from their Elders about finding the bush food, the knowledge is passed from one generation to the next.