The painting depicts various hand crafted wooden implements Aboriginal men and women use for hunting and gathering bush tucker in Central Australia.

Aboriginal symbols illustrated in this painting are:

• The U shape represents a man with woomera, spear and boomerang
• The U shape represents a woman with digging stick and coolamon

The snake and goanna are totemic spirits as well as, a principal food source for Aboriginal people. The women collect the goanna eggs and carry them in a coolamon (wooden bowl).

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

• Aboriginal Symbols and their Meanings
• Aboriginal Food
• Aboriginal People
• Aboriginal Goanna Painting