In earlier times possums would be hunted, the skin carefully removed, scraped with a shell, and then stretched by pegging them out on the ground. With permission from Yorta Yorta and Gunditjmara elders, the artists worked with Museum Victoria to repair the old cloaks and make contemporary replicas, a process that ignited intense interest in possum skin cloaks. ![]() For Couzens, a Gunditjmara woman:īeing shown the Lake Condah cloak was like being given an idea from the Old People. Darroch recalls ‘a sense of the makers being in the room with us’ 1. It was an emotional and inspirational visit. In 1999, artists Lee Darroch, Vicki Couzens and Treahna Hamm were given the opportunity to view for the first time a Gunditjmara cloak from Lake Condah (c.1872), and a Yorta Yorta cloak from Maiden's Punt (c.1853) both held at Melbourne’s Museum Victoria. AIATSIS Central Australia We’re opening a new facility in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in partnership with First Nations Media Australia. ![]()
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