Peter Skipper is an artist and writer from Japingka on the western side of the Great Sandy Desert. Details of Skipper's first contact with non-Aboriginal people, cattle and motor cars are recorded in the autobiography Nganpayi Pujman. After Skipper moved to Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley of Western Australia he began writing and translating stories in the language of Walmajarri for the Summer Institute of Linguistics.