Bush Yam by Malanda Kunoth (SOLD)

Designs in this painting represent a type of pencil yam called Atnwelarr. It's ancestral dreaming story belongs to Malanda's mother's country. Pencil yams are small tubers growing beneath the ground. They are an important bush food source which can be eaten raw or cooked in hot sand and ashes, and are still harvested today. In the Dreamtime, the pencil yam seeds called Kame are especially significant. Two different seeds were borne that created two different species of pencil yam; one called Atnwelarr and one called Arlatyeye.