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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. Unlike in the south-east, where peoples such as Yorta Yorta wore possum-skin cloaks ...
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.
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia at least 65,000 years ago, and over time formed as many as 500 language-based groups . [ 3 ]
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.