Grass Seed Dreaming Tommy-may-tag One Monday my promised husband

One Monday my promised husband came from GoGo Station to pick me up and we went to live at GoGo and then Bayulu Community

Gloria’s clan has used this shrub as the basis for a bush medicine believed to help with kidney problems

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which is situated a further 160 kilometres north-west of Yuendumu

at Utiopa Art in Sydney

Grass Seed Dreaming Tommy-may-tag One Monday my promised husbandIn many of Barbara Weirs paintings, long, tapering lines overlap gracefully to represent a grass once abundant at Utopia before cattle grazing was introduced in the early 20th century. Its botanical name is Portulaca oleracea. For thousands of years, this grass has been important to Aboriginal people because its small black seeds can be ground into flour. Rather than painting the seeds, Weir depicts the grass itself. Her colours show its natural