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Freddy’s Tjitji Tjuta (Many Children) Story

There were two brothers, young ones, about 19 years old, big boys. Their mother didn’t like them. She told them to follow their other brothers, said goodbye and sent them away.

One day these young fellas, when they were travelling, it was a really sun shining day, getting hot. Big rain coming and all the boys were sleeping in the daytime. There were some disabled young people there. The rain when the rain came, kulata (spears) came too and the disabled ones couldn’t walk, and too late, sorry, some kids passed away. This is a true story. Palya (ok).

Categories: Ernabella Arts Inc.

Name: Freddy Ken

Language: Pitjantjatjara

Community: Ernabella (Pukatja)

Biography:

When I was a young bloke I was working with cattle doing fencing, cattle pens, sometimes building houses, pipelines, working on the roads building the highway. I was working with dynamite and it was dangerous. I used to ride horses and sometimes bulls at the bronco rides.

I started painting in Amata. Then I went out working in land management, looking after the country. Now I’ve come back to Ernabella to be with family and I’m painting again. I paint a lot of stories, lots of dancing. My father and my grandfather told me lots of stories, for a long time we have no TV.  My country is sandhill country, it’s good country, little bit rough.

My feeling is when the picture comes I have to paint it. These are stories from my memory, and from memory come pictures.

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