Wiltja

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Wiltjas are shelters made by the Kaurna people and other Indigenous Australian groups.[1] They are temporary dwellings, and are abandoned and rebuilt rather than maintained.[2] Open and semi-circular,[3] wilyjas are meant primarily as a defense against the heat of the sun, and are not an effective shelter from rain.[4]

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  1. ^ Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal
  2. ^ Australian National Research Council (1930). Oceania. University of Sydney, 288. 
  3. ^ Buckley, Ralf (2003). Case Studies in Ecotourism. CABI Publishing, 110. ISBN 0851996655. 
  4. ^ American Museum of Natural History (1976). Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History Board of Trustees, 32. 
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