George Tjapaltjarri was an Aboriginal artist from East Kiwirrkura, on the border of the Northern Territories and the Western Desert. George Tjapaltjarri was also known as George Ward Tjapaltjarri or ‘Dr George’, because of his expertise in traditional medicine. He reportedly had no contact with White Australia until 1963 when, as part of a small group of Pintupi, he settled near Jupiter Well, about 900 km west of Alice Springs. At the time, this group was considered by many to be perhaps the last people in the world to have lived in the Stone Age. George Tjapaltjarri was one of the first generation of Aboriginal artists to paint on canvas the traditional motifs of which he was the cultic guardian. In his works, the artist evokes part of the Tingari Cycle, which celebrates the splendour of his sacred territory on the site of Ungarla, west of Kiwirkurra, in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia.