Traditional cheapest Aboriginal hunting boomerang | black wattle timber | Collectors item

Individually hand-crafted from root of the Australian Black Wattle tree, these beautiful handmade boomerangs are a collector's item.

SIZE: 50 to 70 cm wide, depending on the tree root size
MATERIAL: Made from Australian black wattle timber
GENUINE: Authentic made in Australia traditional Aboriginal hunting killer boomerang
AUTHENTIC: Certificate of authenticity provided showing name and tribal information of maker
MADE: Handmade and crafted by a 83 year old Aboriginal Elder

These traditionally made hunting "Killer" boomerangs are made by 83 years old Aboriginal Elder, Joe Skeen Snr, whose late father, William Skeen and his grandfather, taught him this tradition as a young boy.

Black wattle timber is very hard to find and these boomerangs are handmade by a master craftsman.

PLEASE NOTE THAT EACH BOOMERANG IS HAND MADE FROM AVAILABLE NATIVE TIMBERS AND THAT EACH WILL HAVE DIFFERENT WOOD GRAINS AND SLIGHTLY VARY IN SIZE.

An authentication certificate is supplied cheapest for each black wattle hunting boomerang, providing details about the heritage and background of the creator of this authentic Australian made Aboriginal artifact.

This is a traditional hunting and killing boomerang.
It is meant to travel in the direction thrown and not return to the thrower.
This type of boomerangs is designed to curve very slightly when thrown. This allows it stay in the air long enough to cover a larger distance. People used these large boomerangs to hunt birds, kangaroos and emus.
Non-returning boomerangs are larger and heavier than the returning boomerangs and have a slight hook shape.

Joe Skeen is a Kuku-Thaypan elder and third generation Aboriginal artefact maker. Joe Skeen and his family spend many days along river banks looking for the right shaped black wattle timber that Joe can shape in the traditional manner that he was taught over 70 years ago.

The tribal background about Joe Skeen is as follows:
Tribe: Birri Gubba - in the Bowen area of North Queensland
Maternal: Kuku-Thaipan - North Queensland
Made: Queensland, Australia

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Joe Skeen is a Kuku-Thaypan elder and third generation Aboriginal artefact maker. He was a little boy when his parents were removed from their traditional homelands and sent to the Palm Island Aboriginal Reserve in North Queensland. In the early 1940`s they were moved again to Cherbourg in South East Queensland. Joe Snr. would often accompany his father when he was hired out to local farmers to work, mostly at cane cutting. It was then that his father taught him how to identify black wattle roots and how to fashion those roots into boomerangs. Among the many people that bought his father's boomerangs were American servicemen. He still continues his family traditional and makes a variety of different boomerangs including returning, hooked, killer and hunting style boomerangs.


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