This painting tells a story of Aboriginal women working together to gather bush tomatoes, a traditional food found on Country after the rains. The curved lines in the artwork represent the women sitting on the ground. Each woman has a digging stick beside her.
The bush tomato has small purple flowers and soon after green fruits begin to grow. When these fruits turn yellow or brown they are ready to eat.
How to find bush food is passed down from mothers, aunties, and grandmothers to daughters and nieces. Aboriginal women know where the plants grow and through stories, time on Country, and shared experience, knowledge is handed down—one generation teaching the next.
This painting tells a story of Aboriginal women working together to gather bush tomatoes, a traditional food found on Country after the rains. The curved lines in the artwork represent the women sitting on the ground. Each woman has a digging stick beside her.
The bush tomato has small purple flowers and soon after green fruits begin to grow. When these fruits turn yellow or brown they are ready to eat.
How to find bush food is passed down from mothers, aunties, and grandmothers to daughters and nieces. Aboriginal women know where the plants grow and through stories, time on Country, and shared experience, knowledge is handed down—one generation teaching the next.
Catalogue Number: 25/354
