The Last Nomads Art & Culture

Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 10.09.08

Author: Sabine Haider
News source: Central Art - Aboriginal Art Store

Central Art recently published a spectacular photograph of the pintupi nine or the last nomads taken in 1984 in conjunction with an article on the event and an exhibition featuring the Tjapaltjarri brothers.

When Warlimpirrnga first saw a European he said “I couldn't believe it. I thought he was the devil, a bad spirit and was the colour of clouds at sunrise."

On October 1984, a family of nine Pintupi, referred to in the international press as the ‘Lost Nomads’ or the ‘Pintubi Nine’, were brought in from the Great Sandy Desert in Central Australia and reunited with their extended family at Kiwirrkurra. They included Walala and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri and Tamlik Tjapangati (also referred to as Thomas Tjapaltjarri).

Read the new Central Art Art & Culture article about the last nomads.

View Tingari Cycle by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri.

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