Pintupi Nine

The Pintupi Nine ( Pintupi Nine ), also sometimes referred to as The Lost Tribe ( The lost tribe ), was a group of nine Aborigines from the tribe of Pintupi, in one of the deserts of Australia as prehistoric hunter-gatherers lived until October 1984. In October 1984, the nine Pintupi had when they sought their first contact with the Western world, according to her relatives. The emergence of this group led to a world-wide attention in the press. Three members of this family group are today known artists of the Aborigines.

Life

The Pintupi Nine were the last Aboriginal people who lived in the traditional way between the water holes near Lake Mackay on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory in the Gibson Desert. They were naked, only with hair bands, two meter long spears and ornately decorated boomerang traveling in the desert. They lived on small goannas, rabbits as well as through the preparation of bush food from native plants in their traditional way of life.

They were all born in the wilderness. At the meeting with the first white, the circus performers Geof Tull, who drove through the Western Desert with a car, Warlinipirrnga Tjapaltjarri recalls:

"I could not believe it. I thought he would be the devil, an evil spirit. He was the color of clouds at sunrise. "

The family group, which had until then lived like in the Stone Age, consisted of four brothers ( Warlimpirrnga, Walala, Tamlik ( named Thomas ) and Yari Yari ), three sisters ( Yardi, Yikultji and Tjakaraia ) and their two mothers ( Nanyanu and Papalanyanu ). The boys were aged between 14 and 20 and the girls ranged in age from teenagers. The two mothers were about Enddreißigerinnen. The exact age could not be determined.

The father of seven children and husband of the two women had died a few months earlier, probably due to tainted canned food, which he had found in an abandoned mineworkers. After this event, the family emigrated to the South where she thought her relatives because she saw smoke rising in this direction. She met a man, that she misunderstood, brought them to the north, because he assumed that she wanted to return to their community. The Aborigines, to whom he handed them over, they then in turn led to the right path that led them to their tribe. Because they quickly realized that the group was looking for their relatives who had left 20 years ago in the desert because they wanted to live in an Aboriginal mission station near Alice Springs.

After the first contact and the determination of their relationships, the Pintupi Nine were invited by their tribe to live with them in Kiwirrkura where most of them lived.

An initial medical examination of the Pintupi Nine showed that the clan of Tjapaltjarri, as they are also called, was in brilliant shape. In Kiwirrkura, near Kintores, they met with the other members of her family and stayed there.

Today

Yari Yari 1986 went back to the desert. Warlimpirrnga, Walala and Thomas Tjapaltjarri are internationally recognized as an artist and be together also called The Last Nomads. They exhibited their works in numerous prestigious national galleries such as the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and internationally. One of the two mothers died, the other lives with the three sisters in Kiwirrkura.