They would use the vine of this plant as rope to help carry coolamon with kids. Make like a bag and carry the kids in this. My grandmother was called Arratherrk and her sister was calle Pwelk, the leaf of the bush banana. At Elkedra there is two vine trees and each sister is named after each one.
Dimensions: 15 x 30 cm Lino Print – Dusk Violet S/H 300gsm
On my grandmothers and grandfathers country after the rain I remember the smell of bush melons. I know that they are sweet and ready to eat at this time. They grow along the ground, I would lift the vine up and find all the yellow fruit.
Dimensions: 15 x 30 cm Lino Print-Night Country Blue S/H300gsm
On my grandmothers and grandfathers country after the rain I remember the smell of bush melons. I know that they are sweet and ready to eat at this time. They grow along the ground, I would lift the vine up and find all the yellow fruit.
Dimensions: 15 x 30 cm Lino Print-Night Country Blue S/H300gsm
On my grandmothers and grandfathers country after the rain I remember the smell of bush melons. I know that they are sweet and ready to eat at this time. They grow along the ground, I would lift the vine up and find all the yellow fruit.
Dimensions: 15 x 30 cm Lino Print-Night Country Blue S/H300gsm
On my grandmothers and grandfathers country after the rain I remember the smell of bush melons. I know that they are sweet and ready to eat at this time. They grow along the ground, I would lift the vine up and find all the yellow fruit.
Dimensions: 15 x 30 cm Lino Print-Night Country Blue S/H300gsm
When I was a little girl I would go and collect the seed from the altywart grass with my grandmothers. They would teach us how to hang on to the tree and grind the seeds with our feet. We would carry the seed in our coolamon back to the camp, then make damper cook it on the fire and eat with our families.
Dimensions: 15 x 30 cm Lino Print-Night Country Blue S/H300gsm
When I was a little girl I would go and collect the seed from the altywart grass with my grandmothers. They would teach us how to hang on to the tree and grind the seeds with our feet. We would carry the seed in our coolamon back to the camp, then make damper cook it on the fire and eat with our families.
Dimensions: 15 x 30 cm Lino Print-Night Country Blue S/H300gsm
During the Summer months kedgadrr (bush tomatoes) and il quarldrr (bush banana) are especially bountiful at this time of year, bush foods that are found in Alyawarr country, the land of the people of Ampilatwatja.
Communicating bush foods through painting is an important way of teaching younger generations and maintaining a strong culture.
The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint altyerr (dreaming stories). The artists paint their country where those stories sit.
I paint the country that I come from, the beautiful landscapes and the many colours as they change during the seasons.
“This is my Father’s country.
This place is our hunting place. I always go with my daughters and their children, I show them this place and teach them about the swampy country. We hunt for goannas, bush potato, bush tomato and after the big rain the bush medicine is picked and the roots are dug up to be used.
It is important as my mother taught me this and now I teach my family.”
Dimensions: 15 x 30 cm Lino Print S/H 250gsm