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Catalogue Number: 25/346
This painting shows a bush medicine plant that grows in the dry desert of Central Australia. It survives the hot arid climate, but when the rain does come you can find green leaves and small flowers.
Aboriginal women who live in this area know this plant well, they collect the green leaves of the plant not long after the rain, when the leaves are fresh. The brown curved shapes represent the women sitting on the ground, they have their digging stick beside them and an oval coolamon. This is carved from wood and was used for carrying things in the bush in the old days.
Aboriginal women use the leaves to make bush medicine. It can help with colds, sore muscles, and other sickness.
This painting is about nature healing us and how people and plants are connected in caring, old ways.