Ancient Australia Unearthed eBookCONTACT US FOR PRICES ON CLASS SETS! One October day in 1984, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Canberra was advised by radiophone: "We have a first contact here." Located in the Gibson Desert, nine Pintupi people had been picked up in a four wheel drive and taken to Kintore, near Alice Springs. They had never seen a non Indigenous person, let alone cars and towns. Wearing human hair belts and armed with spears and boomerangs, the Pintupi Nine