Betty Mbitjana
Bush Melons
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Betty Mbitjana
Bush Melons
Central Art Aboriginal Art Store
Code: 09101865
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 150x71
Year: 2009
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With the use of Aboriginal iconography the painting depicts Bush melons. This fruit grew once in abundance, but now days it is difficult to find at Atnwengerrp
the artists homeland.
The Bush Melon is a sweet fruit, which grows on a very small bush. The Aboriginal women gathered the bush melon fruit, the surplus was skewed and dried, to be eaten when bush tucker was scarce.
Betty Mbitjana inherited this Dreaming from her late mother Minnie Pwerle
If you would like to know more about Bush Melons and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
- Aboriginal Women
- Aboriginal Food
- Aboriginal Symbols and their Meanings
- Utopia Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Desert
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