Original Artwork - GSP226 - Jeannie Mills Pwerle

Artist: Jeannie Mills Pwerle

Size: 30 x 30cm

Title: Anaty (Desert Yam)

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Year Painted: 2025

Anaty (Desert Yam)

Jeannie 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.