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Catalogue Number: 23/290
This is a painting about Bush tomatoes that grow wild across the central desert.
After a big rain the plants grow small purple flowers, followed by hard green fruit which slowly starts to ripen in the sun. When the fruit is yellow it is ripe and ready to eat. After a lot of sun the fruit dries and becomes brown it is still good to eat the brown dried fruit.
Aboriginal people living in remote communities collect the fruit. In this painting the fruit has been collected into coolamons which is a carved wooden bowl used in the old days for collecting food.