Gum trees and collect the hard sap. Mum always take us out for sugar bag. Sit under the trees and make damper. 

He make you good in the throat when you get cold, sick. He make you good one. You can't cough then. We boil him and we put sugar bag now. We never put him with a spoon- we don't have a spoon. We put him with a hand. We drink, we have him water. Cup of tea we make him. We put sugar bag and make him nice, sweet."

Though Maggie was born and grew up on Myroodah pastoral station, located in the West Kimberley region, she was taught traditional hunting and foraging techniques by her mother and other relatives, and fondly recalls weekends and afternoons spent searching for bush tucker. In this work she depicts the sites where she collected kuntal as a child. As described here by Maggie, this botanical gum was, and remains, a popular type of bush tucker valued for its sweet taste and medicinal properties.

As a traditional medicine, kuntal is used for the treatment of colds and coughs, and is usually brewed as a hot beverage in water or eucalypt infused tea. The gum can also be consumed as is.

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