Snake Vine Dreaming A15326 Bush Tucker | Aboriginal Art and to bind cuts

and to bind cuts

that can change its colour to blend with its surroundings

Size: 56 x 129cm

the salt encrustations around the dry clay pans and the tracks of the ancestral women

Year: 2005

Snake Vine Dreaming A15326 Bush Tucker | Aboriginal Art and to bind cutsSize: 90 x 90cm acrylic on linen The story is significant to the women who are the custodians of the Dreaming. The Ngalyipi (Snake Vine) is a green creeper vine that grows around trees and shrubs. The plant has medicinal uses the vines are used as tourniquets, and its leaves and vines are used as bandages for wounds. As a traditional bush medicine the leaves are chewed to treat severe colds and the stems can cure headaches. The vine is also used in