Aboriginal Art Spirit of the Bush 2 Womens Business Brown Circles-Walumarra Cotton Quilting Fabric 1/2 YARD

Aboriginal Art Spirit of the Bush 2 Womens Business Brown Circles-Walumarra Cotton Quilting Fabric is from the Spirit of the Bush 2 Collection designed by Chern’ee, Brooke and Jesse Sutton  for Kennard and Kennard. 

This fabric is 100% cotton and is 44 inches (112 cm) wide.

(1/2 yard = 45.7 cm)This fabric is sold in 1/2 yard increments if you would like 1 yard please select 2,1 1/2 yards select 3,2 yards select 4and so on

Chern’ee Sutton. Chern’ee is an award winning, modern indigenous artist from the Kalkadoon people around the Mount Isa area in Queensland.

This is Brooke Sutton's interpretation of “Walumarra” which means in the Kalkadoon language “Womens Business”. For thousands and thousands of years while the men were out hunting large game the women too were out hunting and gathering bush foods and medicines. They would use their digging sticks to dig for bush yams, honey ants and witchetty grubs. They would collect plums and bark from the wild plum bush using the plums as food and the bark to treat skin ailments. They would collect berries and wood from the conker berry bush using the berries as food or drying them out to eat at a later time and they would burn the wood for a mosquito repellent. They would collect wild lemongrass and boil it to make a lemon tea for sore throats and they would ground the pea bush seeds to use as a flour. They would collect nuts from the sandalwood tree and roast them slowly to eat like peanuts and they would collect blossoms from the hakea tree and immerse them in water for a sweet tasting drink.
In my paintings the women sit on their bottoms with their feet underneath them with their digging sticks on one side of them and their coolamons on the other side. They firstly collect the bush tucker and then prepare the food for medicines and food around the campfires. When the women get up off the ground the U shape left in the sand is where they were sitting.

While every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the colours depicted in our images, please be aware that due to monitor resolution, lighting etc it is almost impossible to represent colour to 100% accuracy.