Wiltja

thumb|Wiltja in outback, circa 1940 {{use Australian English|date=July 2019}} {{use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{for|the hostel for Aboriginal girls in Adelaide|Charles Duguid#Wiltja}} '''Wiltjas''' are shelters made by the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and other Aboriginal Australian peoples.<ref>[http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/indigenous/technology/ Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416140453/http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/indigenous/technology/ |date=2010-04-16 }}</ref> They are temporary dwellings, and are abandoned and rebuilt rather than maintained.<ref>{{cite book |last=Australian National Research Council |author-link=Australian National Research Council |title=Oceania |publisher=University of Sydney |year=1930 |page=288}}</ref> Open and semi-circular,<ref>{{cite book |last=Buckley |first=Ralf |title=Case Studies in Ecotourism |publisher=CABI Publishing |year=2003 |isbn=0-85199-665-5 |page=110}}</ref> wiltjas are meant primarily as a defence against the heat of the sun, and are not an effective shelter from rain.<ref>{{cite book |last=American Museum of Natural History |author-link=American Museum of Natural History |title=Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History |publisher=American Museum of Natural History Board of Trustees |year=1976 |page=32}}</ref>

== See also == * Humpy

==References== <references/>

==Photographs== *[http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aaa19879 Aboriginal people outside a wiltja shelter made of bark and branches c.1914 ] - State Library of Victoria *[https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-aboriginal-shelter-south-australia-31572403.html Aboriginal bough shelter known as a “wiltja”, at Desert Tracks Pitjantjatjara Tours camp] - Alamy

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