Artist: Tenallie Mills Petyarre
Size: 30 x 30cm
Title: Anaty (Desert Yam)
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year Painted: 2025
Anaty (Desert Yam)
Tenallie paints the Anaty story from her father's country. This yam grows underground with its viny shrub growing above ground up to 1 metre high. The anaty is a tuber, or swollen root, of the shrub and tastes much like the common sweet potato. It can be eaten raw or cooked and is still a staple food for the desert aborigines where it can be harvested at any time of the year. Some can be found as big as a person's head.
