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Tjukurpa Wangka: Storytellers: Artwork from Nyapari

Past exhibition
19 August - 1 September 2013
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ruth Fatt, Kuru Ala

Ruth Fatt Australian, Pitjantjatjara, 1960-2021

Kuru Ala
acrylic on linen
100 x 60 cm
821632
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This is Kuru Ala a sacred place for the Kungkarrakalpa (seven sisters story). Minyma tjuta kapiku nyinanyi. The sisters were sitting around the rockhole. There was a kuniya (python) inside....
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This is Kuru Ala a sacred place for the Kungkarrakalpa (seven sisters story). Minyma tjuta kapiku nyinanyi. The sisters were sitting around the rockhole. There was a kuniya (python) inside. "Kwarila ngalkunyi kuka wiru mulapa." kangkuru wangkangu. Warungka kampanyi kuka paluru palya. The elder sister said "thats good food to eat" and they cooked the kuniya on the fire. But that wasnt really a kuniya but the man Wati Nyiru who changed his form into that of a snake. He chased the women all across the desert trying to get the elder sister to be his wife.
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