Wiltja
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Wiltjas are shelters made by the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and other Aboriginal Australian peoples.[1] They are temporary dwellings, and are abandoned and rebuilt rather than maintained.[2] Open and semi-circular,[3] wiltjas are meant primarily as a defence against the heat of the sun, and are not an effective shelter from rain.[4]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal Archived 2010-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
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Photographs
[edit | edit source]- Aboriginal people outside a wiltja shelter made of bark and branches c.1914 - State Library of Victoria
- Aboriginal bough shelter known as a “wiltja”, at Desert Tracks Pitjantjatjara Tours camp - Alamy
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