The painting refers to Warlpiri Aboriginal women gathering bush tomato in Central Australia. The women gather the fruit, which grows generally next to creek beds. It has a pungent odour when the fruit is ripe.

This fruit has been an important food source (bush tucker) for Aboriginal people for many thousands of years. Bush Tomato is known to the Warlpiri people as Wanakiji.

Illustrated symbol depicted are: -

• The circle represents the campsite.
• The pattern represent to patches of the bush tomato.

If you would like to know more about the Bush Tomato and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:

• Aboriginal Food
• Aboriginal Women
• Aboriginal People
• Aboriginal Symbols and their Meanings