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Category - FINE PRINTS FROM THE BLANASI COLLECTION
Prints from the Blanasi Collection: Contact us to purchase this item. Jimmy Hood Jimmy's painting uses the rarrk, the old style cross-hatching. This painting is of bush tucker - botchu - which is a little bit like a bush yam. It grows just underneath the surface of the ground, unlike the bush yam which is deeper under ground. You can find it anywhere in Arnhem Land, anytime of the year. You cook it in the coals, or roast it, and then peel off the skin and eat the inside of it. Botchu is Dhuwa food and this is a Dhuwa painting. Arnhem Land people share this bush tucker with kangaroos and wallabies. Sometimes kangaroo's smell this bush tucker and then dig it up with their claws and eat it. The main types are the rock wallaby, rock kangaroo and grass wallaby.
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