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This category describes traditional and historic Australian Aboriginal clothing. Modern Australian clothing should be categorised under Australian fashion or Clothing companies of Australia Pages in category "Australian Aboriginal clothing"
As Aboriginal people were dispossessed of their land, the making and wearing of cloaks became rarer. In addition, white missionaries and others were very efficient in the distribution of clothing and blankets to Aboriginal communities which, over a few generations, caused the tradition of possum skin cloak making to die out.
A buka (also boka or booka) is a cloak traditionally worn by Noongar peoples, the Indigenous peoples of south-west Western Australia, and by the Indigenous peoples of South Australia. [1] Aboriginal woman in a kangaroo skin cloak carrying a child, c. 1860
Aboriginal dancers wearing a more modern version of this covering, performing at Nambassa in New Zealand- 1981. Among some groups, including the Pitjantjajara, a small modesty apron was made of the string for young girls to wear when they reached puberty.
The term Aboriginal Australians includes many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years. [ 11 ] [ 61 ] These peoples have a broadly shared, though complex, genetic history, [ 62 ] [ 40 ] but it is only in the last two hundred years that they have been defined and started to self-identify as a single group, socio ...
Australian Aboriginal clothing (6 P) Australian headgear (11 P) M. Australian military uniforms (2 C, 15 P) T. Textile arts of Australia (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category ...
Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is a dialect of Australian English used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander) population. Australian Kriol is an English-based creole language that developed from a pidgin used in the early days of European colonisation.
There are a number of contemporary appropriate terms to use when referring to Indigenous peoples of Australia. In contrast to when settlers referred to them by various terms, in the 21st century there is consensus that it is important to respect the "preferences of individuals, families, or communities, and allow them to define what they are most comfortable with" when referring to Aboriginal ...