pinta pinta was from western australia. he was born at yumari, a place in the great sandy desert. he was probably born sometime in the late 1920s (around 1927 or 1928). before contact with white society, he lived a nomadic way of life in the desert. in the 1950s, he walked with his family to stay at haasts bluff, a government rations outpost. this was his first contact with modern australian civilisation. his was one of the last groups in the country to come out of the desert.