Jimmy Brown Tjampitjinpa (L) and fellow Aboriginal elder Brandy Jungurey (R) are pictured at Morapoi..,...

Jimmy Brown Tjampitjinpa (L) and fellow Aboriginal elder Brandy Jungurey (R) are pictured at Morapoi Station north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Tjampitjinpa, now chairman of the Pintupi desert people, was once punished by Aborigines in the Kimberleys who repeatedly speared and beat him with fighting sticks as part of the tribal system of "payback". Long derided by white Australia as savage, the tribal system of "payback" remains at the core of remote Aboriginal communities but is often at odds with the white man\'s law of the land. Picture taken 4 June, 2001.