ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how the important art form of kangaroo and possum skin cloaks is being revived through Australia's south-eastern regions. It provides the Pearl Gibbs 'Gambanyi' Kangaroo Cloak as part of a broader project, the Future Feminist Archive, which crossed metropolitan and regional New South Wales archives and communities over a two-year period. In Sydney, historian Heather Goodall, who interviewed Pearl Gibbs at the Pearl Gibbs Hostel in Dubbo, connected these geographically and culturally disparate feminist histories. The feminist legacy of Pearl Gibbs's activism was not only to battle 'tirelessly against racism but also to stress the "inter-relationship of racism and sexism" for Aboriginal women'. Pearl Gibbs had an amazing resilience, intelligence and networking ability. The Cloak designed for Aunty Pearl Gibbs 'Gambanyi' depicts her traditional affiliations, family connections, life journey and networking for Aboriginal civil and human rights.
