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Catalogue Number: 26/24
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 , there is a coolamon in the middle to collect the fruits into, this is a wooden bowl used in the old days for collecting bush tucker.
Some of the bush tomatoes are red and brown—they are dried and saved for later. The yellow ones are fresh and ready to eat right away.
The women learn from their Elders about finding the bush food and pass that knowledge on.