Wiltjas are shelters made by the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and other Aboriginal Australian peoples. They are temporary dwellings, and are abandoned...
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spelled "wurlie"), possibly from the Kaurna language. They are called wiltjas in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara languages, mia-mia in Wadawurrung...
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was the establishment of the Wiltja Hostel in November 1956, at 17 East Avenue in the Adelaide suburb of Millswood. (Wiltja is a Pitjantjatjara word for...
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shortly after becoming Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Australia portal Wiltja, a shelter made by the Pitjantjatjara people and other indigenous Australian...
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transportation included canoes. Shelters varied regionally, and included wiltjas in the Atherton Tablelands, paperbark and stringybark sheets and raised...
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yandis or fashion boomerangs and spears. The only artificial dwelling was a wiltja or windbreak. In evaluating the Pila Nguru claim to native title in 2001...
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names for structures. These included humpy, gunyah (or gunya), goondie, wiltja and wurley (or wurlie). Until the 20th century, non-Indigenous peoples assumed...
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Desert Weavers, won the Other Media Award for her woven basket Patupiri Wiltja, while Alice Blanch received the Photography Award for her mysterious, moody...
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Tilmouth, Ivy Mitchell, and Geoff Barnes) and resulted in the creation of the Wiltja Hostel for Aboriginal secondary school students in the suburb of Millswood...
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