guddaga baldha

the skin probably comes from a joey.- SA Museum has a Dama wallaby skin rug made by Louisa Egginton. It is featured in the famous portrait of Ivaritji.- It has an it inner surface a regular pattern of crossed lines formed by rubbing the folded skin with a broken piece of quartzite hammerstone. The skins were pegged out and dried in the sun, and stitched together with kangaroo (sinew) after trimming to a regular shape. (Egginton/Johnson/Tindale)