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Catalogue Number: 25/338
This painting shows the bush tucker that grows in Central Australia after good rain. When the country is fresh and the ground is soft, Aboriginal women go out to look for food. They find bush tomato plants with ripe fruit hanging from the branches.
The green dots in the painting show the grass growing across the land. The red dots represent the desert sand. The white dots in a curved shape are the women sitting together around a waterhole. Beside each woman is her digging stick. The yellow shapes on the branch are the ripe bush tomatoes, ready to pick and eat.
Aboriginal families have been gathering bush tucker for many generations. This knowledge is passed down from mothers, aunties, and grandmothers, teaching the younger ones how to read the land, when to harvest, and how to care for Country.