| Title:
Bush Medicine
Stock No: GP-000111
Size: 125cm x 87 cm
Price: Bush Medicine
Price: SOLD
The Bush Medicine painting depicts the leaves of a special
plants that is intrinsic to the healing process. The women
go to different places around Utopia to collect leaves from
special plants and return to camp where the leaves are boiled
to extract resin. Kangaroo fat is mixed into the resin, creating
a paste that can be stored for a long time in bush conditions.
This medicine is used to heal cuts, wounds, bites, rashes
and also acts as an insect repellant.By painting about "
Bush Medicine Dreaming " Gloria is paying homage to the
spirit of the medicine plant in the hope that it will regenerate,
enabling the people to use its healing powers.
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