Bindibu country

the long version

An account of the 1957 and 1963 expeditions into the area north and west of Lake McKay, 500 miles west of Alice Springs, home of the Bindibu, 'the last of the Aborigines living a traditional life in the desert. [Thomson] was the last person to observe their culture unmodified by European contact'. Donald Thomson, considered by some to be Australia's Lawrence of Arabia, knew a lot about anthropology and he studied the Aboriginal people, like the very remotely located Bindibu Tribe with great thoroughness and compassion. In many ways he was a champion for the Aboriginal people in some fairly difficult times. This book is a marvellously worthy study of the Bindibu life and customs. This was a tribe with no clothes and hardly any contact with the white man.