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It’s not difficult to find reference to Indigenous ethnographic designs in contemporary Australia. Motifs from Adelaide’s Balarinji Design Studios coat Qantas’ Boeing fleet and elders wore Victorian possum skin cloaks at the 2006 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Melbourne.
By Myles Russell Cook, Swinburne University of Technology It’s not difficult to find reference to Indigenous ethnographic designs in contemporary Australia. Motifs from Adelaide’s Balarinji Design Studios coat Qantas’ Boeing fleet and elders wore Victorian possum skin cloaks at the 2006 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Melbourne. What is more difficult is determining the nature of…