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Gabala Garment Plate
Fashion
Gabala plate
Location
Yugara Country
Project type
Fashion
Design date
2025
Gabala Garment Plate is my interpretation of the brass metal plates worn around an Indigenous Australian mans neck, to be identified as the King of the tribe. This was not a hierarchy identification.
The brass plates are symbolic and were significant for the colonists to identify which Indigenous man to talk to, on behalf of the tribe.
The Kings of the tribe could communicate to the colonists and back to their tribe. This method was a way for the colonists to take advantage of our knowledge and resources.
My Gabala Garment Plate highlights femininity by using the soft possum furs. This symbolises how a woman's voice was dismissed.
Women were not allowed to ‘say it with our chest’, we wore the pain on our chest.
Gabala Garment Plate paired with Gabala Garment Belt and Gabala Garment Skirt
