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Jessie Pula Luck – Atyenh Artna Arnernp (My Bush Medicine)

I was born in Irrultja, my father’s country. I paint therrpeyt, a plant with red and pink flowers, it is my family symbol. You can suck the flowers to get a sweet honey from. You can wash your body with the leaves to heal sores and clean your body. I paint arreth which grows in the rocky ground and helps fix my sore throat when I make a hot tea from the leaves. I love to paint, I feel happy when I paint, I feel busy and good.

Name: Jessie Ngwarraye Ross


Language: Alyawarr


Community: Ampilatwatja


Biography:

I paint my Country, Amaroo.  I paint about bush medicine and the old ways, when people get sick we boil the bush medicine to washing babies and we drink it when we get the flu.  Our Grandmothers teach us to find bush medicine through painting and collecting bush medicine out bush.  I have always loved to paint.  

The purple flowers in my paintings are tropical speedwell which are used on skin conditions like scabies and also made into a tonic for drinking.  The yellow flowers are pretty flowers that grow in the country after rain and the purple flowers are bush tomato.


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