Possum Skin Cloak

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Wrap Culture Around You - Cloaks, Clothing and Jewellery

The safety and the warmth of a cloak is a real thing, you wrap it around you and carry your children, it's used in everyday life. In most instances it's used in death as well. You're wrapped in your cloak and buried. I read a quote once about a blanket of love. For me the possum skin cloak is symbolic of wrapping that love and that culture around you, it's symbolic of the warmth and the safety of belonging and of knowing who you are.

VICKI COUZENS Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara

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Wally Cooper
Yorta Yorta/Moidaban. Born 1949

Possum Skin Cloak
2000
Possum skin, paint
113.5 x 115 cm
Koorie Heritage Trust AH3063

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