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Catalogue Number: 26/133
This painting tells a story of Aboriginal women working together to gather bush tomatoes, often found in spinifex country. The painting shows the women’s foot prints as they walk across the land. The curved lines in the artwork represent the women sitting on the ground with their digging sticks beside them and a bowl in the middle to collect the fruits into.
After a big rain small purple flowers grow followed soon by the fruit. When these fruits turn yellow, they are ripe and ready to eat, sometimes the fruit left in the sun turns brown and dried, this is still good to eat.
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.