Bush onion
1990
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 230.3 × 160.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Mungarapa, Northern Territory
- Inscription
- inscribed in blue fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.c.: RONNIE LAWSON / BUSH ONION / LAJAMANU APRIL 1990 / 75
- Accession Number
- 2002.13
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Supporters and Patrons of Aboriginal Art, 2002
© The Artist/Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Limited
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Two Napurrurla ancestral women are searching for bush onions, equipped with digging sticks and coolamons. The women dig up lots of bush onions, which grow in stony areas and carry them home in their coolamons. The cone-shaped motifs represent the onions; the horseshoe shapes indicate the women and the short lines represent their digging sticks. The small round circles represent the base of the onions beneath the stony ground, and the long straight lines represent the roots of the bush onions spreading underground. This Dreaming story took place at Winki Winki, north west of Tanami Downs.
