CreatorStan BrumbyTitleBush BananaMediumAcrylic on canvasDimensions60cm x 62cmArtist StatementSee those waterholes there - that big one in the middle and the little ones all around - well, that's where that bush banana grows. Oh, it's a good tucker that one. Nice and big and doesn't need a lot of water so we find him all year round. The other bush fruit, well they're a lot smaller nd you have to go looking, looking all around long time to get enough for a feed. That banana vine just goes right up another tree and then you see maybe one, maybe two fruit. If you're feeling a bit crook, you eat him up and you feel much better.
NOTES ON BANANA BUSH
The fruit grows on a parasitic vine which requires a host tree. It grows in rock crevices close to the river beds and waterholes in the spinifex country and is collected by the Aboriginal people to be eaten as fruit or used for medicinal purposes. Since the bush banana plant has both nutritional and healing properties it is of immense importance to the Aboriginal people of the desert regions of Australia.Accession Number002.2019Access AdviceFor research purposes only. No reproduction without permission of Yarrila Arts and Museum.
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Painting in Australian Indigenous art style, acrylic on canvas.
