 As well as being an artist Whiskey was a ngangkari.Whiskey was born in Pitjantjatjara country at Pirupa Akla, about 130 km south of Kata Tjuta to a family of traditional nomadic hunters and gatherers.Whiskey did not encounter a white person until he was in his teenage years and, by this time his father and many of his family group had died and those remaining moved on to the Lutheran mission at Haasts Bluff.