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Wiltjas are shelters made by the
Aboriginal people outside a wiltja shelter made of bark and branches c.1914
- State Library of Victoria
- Alamy Indigenous architecture Huts in Australia Australian Aboriginal bushcraft Architecture in Australia {{IndigenousAustralia-stub
Wiltjas are shelters made by the Pitjantjatjara
The Pitjantjatjara (; or ) are an Aboriginal people of the Central Australian desert near Uluru. They are closely related to the Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra and their languages are, to a large extent, mutually intelligible (all are va ...
, Yankunytjatjara and other Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Island ...
peoples. They are temporary dwellings, and are abandoned and rebuilt rather than maintained. Open and semi-circular, wiltjas are meant primarily as a defence against the heat of the sun, and are not an effective shelter from rain.
See also
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Photographs
Aboriginal people outside a wiltja shelter made of bark and branches c.1914
- State Library of Victoria
- Alamy Indigenous architecture Huts in Australia Australian Aboriginal bushcraft Architecture in Australia {{IndigenousAustralia-stub