Wiltja

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

References

1. ↑ Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal
2. ↑ Australian National Research Council (1930). Oceania. University of Sydney. p. 288. 
3. ↑ Buckley, Ralf (2003). Case Studies in Ecotourism. CABI Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 0-85199-665-5. 
4. ↑ American Museum of Natural History (1976). Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History Board of Trustees. p. 32.