Jan Griffiths - Garelng (Bush Melon)

Artist: Jan Griffiths Goongaja

$1,450.00

60 x 60 cm, natural ochre and pigment on canvas.

Painting is stretched over pine wood frame.

 

Garelng (bush melon) grows in Barndenyirriny (hot season), fruiting in September through October. Miriwoong people harvest the fruit when it turns yellow and eat the inside without the skin, but not the seeds as they are very hard and difficult to chew.