Boomerang: Behind an Australian IconDescribes the traditional making and uses of the boomerang. Provides information about topics such as boomerangs in fighting, fishing, rituals and trade, decorating boomerangs, and the differences in appearance and usage across Australia. Includes a bibliography. The author has published widely on Aboriginal history and art. |
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AASAM Aboriginal art Aboriginal artists Aboriginal boomerangs Aboriginal culture Adelaide Adnyamathanha adze Alice Springs anthropologists Arrernte artefacts Australian Aboriginal Australian hunting boomerang Birdsville Track boomerang became boomerang types boomerang was collected boomerang-throwing BOTTOM Bumerang Central Australian boomerang Central Australian hunting ceremonial Clement Wragge coastal cockatoos Cooper Creek Cooper Creek region decorated designs eastern Lake Eyre ethnographer European example fighting boomerang fighting weapon fish Flinders Ranges fluted carving Gawler Ranges hooked boomerang hunters hunting and fighting incised Island kangaroo karli Kimberley Lake Eyre Basin Lake Eyre region lanjee MacDonnell Ranges metres murrawirrie Norman Tindale Northern Territory object painted photograph pipeclay probably Queensland red ochre region in brackets returning boomerang River shape sheoak shield South Australian Museum South Wales south-eastern Australia spears spearthrowers sport surface Sydney Tennant Creek throw thrower throwing-stick tool tourist traded tree tribe Victoria Warlpiri Western Australia Western Desert wirlki wood Yalata Yuduyudulya Воттом