Pintupi Nine
The Pintupi Nine (Pintupi-Nine), also sometimes referred to as The Lost Tribe (The Lost Tribe) referred, was a group of nine Aborigines from the tribe of Pintupi that by October 1984 in one of the deserts of Australia as an isolated group of traditional wild gatherers living . In October 1984 the nine Pintupi had their first contact with the western world when they were looking for relatives. The appearance of this group attracted worldwide press attention. Three members of this family group are now well-known Aboriginal artists .
Life
The Pintupi Nine were the last Aborigines to live in the traditional way between the waterholes near Lake Mackay on the border between Western Australia and Northern Territory in the Gibson Desert . They were naked, only with hairbands, two meter long spears and elaborately decorated boomerangs in the desert. They fed on little goannas and rabbits as well as by preparing bush food from native plants in their traditional way of life.
They were all born in the desert. Warlinipirrnga Tjapaltjarri remembers meeting the first white man, the circus performer Geof Tull, who was driving a car through the Western Desert :
"I couldn't believe it. I thought he was the devil, a bad spirit. He was the color of clouds at sunrise. "
"I could not believe it. I thought he was the devil, an evil spirit. It was the color of clouds at sunrise. "
The family group consisted of four brothers ( Warlimpirrnga , Walala, Tamlik (called Thomas) and Yari Yari), three sisters (Yardi, Yikultji and Tjakaraia) and their two mothers (Nanyanu and Papalanyanu). The boys were between 14 and 20 years old and the girls were teenagers . The two mothers were in their late thirties. The exact age could not be determined.
The father of the seven children and the husband of the two women had died a few months earlier, presumably from spoiled canned food that he had found in an abandoned mining town. After this event, the family migrated south, where they suspected their relatives, because they saw smoke rising in that direction. She met a man who misunderstood her and took her north, assuming that she wanted to return to her community. The Aborigines, to whom he gave them, then led them back on the right path that led them to their tribe. Because they quickly realized that the group was looking for relatives who they had left in the desert 20 years ago because they wanted to live in an Aboriginal mission station near Alice Springs .
After first contact and family relationships established, the Pintupi Nine were invited by their tribe to live with them in Kiwirrkura , where most of them lived.
An initial medical examination by the Pintupi Nine showed that the Tjapaltjarri clan, as they are also known, was in splendid shape. At Kiwirrkura, near Kintore , they met with the other members of their family and stayed there.
today
In 1986 Yari Yari went back to the desert. Warlimpirrnga, Walala and Thomas Tjapaltjarri are internationally recognized as artists and are collectively called The Last Nomads . They exhibited their works in numerous renowned national galleries, such as the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and also internationally. One of the two mothers died, the other lives with the three sisters in Kiwirrkura.
Web links
- Aboriginal art website
- Newspix: Picture of the Pintupi Nine shortly after they arrived at their relatives
- National Museum of Australia journal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Lost tribe happy in modern world , Nigel Adam, The Herald Sun, February 3, 2007
- ↑ Information about Warlimpirrnga on aboriginalstore.com , accessed April 2, 2010
- ↑ Information about Walala on aboriginalstore.com , accessed April 2, 2010
- ↑ Information about Thomas on aboriginalstore.com , accessed April 2, 2010
- ↑ The Last Nomads on Aboriginal Art Store
- ^ Fred Meyers: Locating ethnographic practice: Romance, reality and politics in the outback. Volume 15, American Ethnologist, No. 15 November 4th, 1988
- ↑ Charlie McMahon: Sunday Times: The End of an Era . The Sunday Times (Western Australia), February 4, 2007, pp. 14-17
- ↑ Tjapaltjarri Brothers in the Aboriginal Art Store