Aboriginal Australian Huntress

This is my depiction of an Aboriginal Australian huntress living sometime long before the European invasions of the 19th century. I admit that there’s a lot of romantic fantasy going into this design, but to make it come across less like an ignorant stereotype, I did do some quick homework on what Aboriginal Australian clothing would have looked like in pre-invasion times. One thing I learned is that some Aboriginal cultures liked to draw or inscribe designs like lozenges or cross-hatching into their loincloths, which inspired the patterns on the one my heroine is wearing here.

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