Mia Mia (shelter)

Mia Mia (shelter)
For other uses of "Mia Mia", see Mia Mia (disambiguation).

A Mia Mia is a temporary shelter made of bark, branches, leaves and grass used by some Indigenous Australians. It is also used in Australian English to mean a temporary shelter. It comes from the language Wada Wurrung.

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