Wiltja
Wiltjas are shelters made by the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and other Aboriginal Australian 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.
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- 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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- Bush dwelling or wiltja in outback Australia, ca. 1940 - C. Duguid (19739767798).jpg by National Library of Australia from Canberra, Australia, No restrictions
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