[6] He and his family lived a traditional, nomadic life in the desert, and had no contact with Euro-Australian society.
Their first encounter with White people was in the early 1920s, with a group of Christian missionaries travelling from Ernabella to Warburton.
[5] On their way back, the missionaries tried to persuade the family to come with them to Ernabella, but Jimmy's father, Tjuwintjara, was not ready to give up life in the bush.
[7] When Jimmy was a teenager, his father encountered an expedition led by anthropologist Ted Strehlow.
[5] In the late 1930s, Jimmy married a woman named Nyinmungka,[6] who he met while working at Everard Park.
[6] He and his wife lived in Kaltjiti, but Jimmy wanted to move closer to his family's homeland near Malumpa.
In the early 1990s,[11] he and two of his nephews, Ivan and Douglas Baker, established Kaṉpi as an outstation for their families.
His paintings represent stories from the time of creation that dictate sacred law (Tjukurpa) for Pitjantjatjara people.
[5] In 2007, Baker was one of thirty artists featured in the first National Indigenous Art Triennial exhibition, Culture Warrior.