Colonial Leather Aboriginal Art - Black & White

Features:

• Fabric sewn onto 50mm webbing.
• Heavy duty 3mm genuine leather ends.
• Slide adjustable in length from 80cm to 130cm.
• Made in Australia

The Bush coconut or bloodwood apple, is an Australian bush tucker food, often eaten by Aborigines of Central Australia. The bush coconut is, in fact, a combination of plant and animal: an adult pores female scale insect, lives in a gall induced on a bloodwood eucalypt. It is in the size of an apple with a rough exterior, a small grub can be found inside after breaking the fruit open and is usually eaten. The white flesh is also eaten.

Audrey Martin Napanangka is a renowned artist, belonging to the Yuendumu group of artists. She beautifully depicted the bush coconut plants in a decorative manner. The best time to look for bush onion around April/May to pickup. Audrey Martin Napanangka was born in Yuendumu where bush coconuts grow abundantly.

*Please note that as this material is cut from a larger piece & design that the pattern may vary.*