Deaconess Winifred Hilliard and the cultural brokerage of the Ernabella craft room

Abstract

Deaconess Winifred Hilliard arrived at the Presbyterian Ernabella mission craft room in far north-west South Australia in 1954 to work as a qualified missionary. She was 33.1 Her job: to work among Pitjantjatjara women as the 'handcraft supervisor' at the mission.