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Bush Medicine Plants

“Bush medicine plants are used for healing on the body and for drinking. We make this by smashing the plants with a rock, we use the juice and the fibre of the plant.

We collect bush medicine plants when we are out hunting. Different kinds of plants grow during different seasons.

There are lots of different medicines, we know what their stories are, we learnt them from our parents and we teach these stories to our children.”

Bush medicine knowledge is still strong in Ampilatwatja, it continues to be passed down to the younger generations and is widely used.


When the women go hunting they often gather bush medicine. The plants depicted here are found in the country around Ampilatwatja, they are used for soothing skin infections and to make a drink to help with colds and coughs.


Painting bush medicine stories is important because it helps to maintain a strong knowledge and culture for the community.

Categories: Artists of Ampilatwatja

Name: Chloe Ngwarraye Morton

Language: Alyawarre

Community: Ampilatwatja

Biography:

I was born in Ammaroo Station.  My father was a stockman on Ammaroo and I used to watch him round up cattle and work the with horses.  I now live in Ampilatwatja with my six children. 

I began painting at Artists of Ampilatwatja in 2010 and I learnt painting from my mother Milly Kemarre Morton.  My painting depict the landscape of my mother's country.  We would visit my mother's country sometimes to collect bushtucker and go hunting.  We would go camping out and sleep under the stars.  

 

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