Treena Clark is a Kokatha and Wirangu academic based in Tarntanya/Adelaide. She is working on a University of Technology Sydney funded research project titled Ad(dressing) Indigeneity: identity, healing, and social change through clothing, fashion, and style.
How First Nations artists are reclaiming colonial objects and celebrating culture through garments
A few years back, I started collecting vintage Australian tourist scarves that portray First Nations people as primitive caricatures and noble savages. Now, I own more than ten scarves with images ranging from Western depictions of First Nations art and objects, to Indigenous people in tokenistic scenes.