A brief look at the long history of First Nations fashion design in Australia

  • Written by: Treena Clark, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellow, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
A brief look at the long history of First Nations fashion design in AustraliaAboriginal Display at the Brisbane Exhibition, 1914. State Library of Queensland

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people, and links to old newspaper stories and research papers using outdated and potentially offensive terminology.


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