Ruth Fatt

Pitjantjatjara Language Group

"Kuru Ala"

66 x 100cm

Ref No: RF13406

SOLd

This is Kuru Ala, a sacred place for the Seven Sisters' story. The sisters were sitting around the rockhole. There was a python inside. The elder sister said "that's good food to eat" and they cooked the snake on the fire. But that wasn't really a snake but a man who had 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.

Ruth was born in the bush at Granite Downs cattle station around 1960 where her parents were working as station hands. Her father's country is Kampurarpapiti in Western Australia and her mother's place is Tjalinyla close to Tjuntjuntjara (Spinifex Country) also in Western Australia.
Ruth's grandfather had three wives, as was common for traditional Pitjantjatjara men. Ruth's grandmother was the first wife. Wingu Tingima was the third wife and culturally one of Ruth's grandmothers.