wiltja

File:Bush dwelling or wiltja in outback Australia, ca. 1940 - C. Duguid (19739767798).jpg

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Wiltjas are shelters made by the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and other Aboriginal Australian peoples.[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 }} They are temporary dwellings, and are abandoned and rebuilt rather than maintained.{{cite book |last=Australian National Research Council |author-link=Australian National Research Council |title=Oceania |publisher=University of Sydney |year=1930 |page=288}} Open and semi-circular,{{cite book |last=Buckley |first=Ralf |title=Case Studies in Ecotourism |publisher=CABI Publishing |year=2003 |isbn=0-85199-665-5 |page=110}} wiltjas are meant primarily as a defence against the heat of the sun, and are not an effective shelter from rain.{{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}}