Agnes has painted a top-down map of Country—the route women take when they go out “hunting” for bush banana, bush tomato and other important bush foods of the Northern Tanami Desert. At either end of the “hunt” the women rest, sitting around campfires where they make tea in billycans, or in repurposed tins, and winnow seeds for flour. The horseshoe shapes are the sitting women seen from above. The undulating and endless line is the paths they take, winding through bushland thick with acacias and ghost gums, to find the fruiting trees.

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