Women’s Dreaming – Snake Vine, 2023
$280.00
This painting shows a Women’s Dreaming story. It shows women travelling with a stick from Minamina on the Tanami Desert, towards the east through Yuendumu to the Queensland border. They got homesick on the way. They had to use the stick to hit the ground, which took them back to Minamina.
The circles in the middle and lines connecting them are Snake Vine Dreaming. The circles also represent places the women travelled.
Snake Vine, called jarlatu, ngalyiki or warampurra, is a vine that is used for treating skin ailments. This climbing plant grows around the trunks of trees. The leaves are boiled in water and the water used as a wash to treat boils called karlapa or any sickness such as scabies or general pain called warrngarn. The stems can also be tied around the head or neck to relieve pain. The medicinal use is not recognised by Bilinarra people.
The red fruit can be rubbed in the hair (kartpi) to make it healthy and dark. The stems can be used as bush rope to tie things together such as firewood.
There is a special song about this plant and the rains of the wet season. This is the plant that the jungguwurru (echidna) used as a rope to carry the shade tree on his back in the Dreaming story.
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