Boomerang
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- Type
- Boomerangs
- Materials
- Wood
- Collection
- Patricia Heath collection
- Accession number
- 1982.0084.0070
Description
An asymmetrical wooden boomerang with slight curvature and a smooth surface. Both ends taper to points with notches cut into both edges.
This object is one of large collection the Museum acquired from Patricia Heath in 1982. She had had the collection for more than twenty years. Analysis of the handwriting on some labels associated with the collection suggests that many of these objects were originally collected by John Francis Connelly (1860-1928), a prominent surveyor in Western Australia. Collections of Aboriginal material acquired by Connelly are also held in the Field Museum, Chicago and the Bishop Museum in Hawaii.
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:26:26 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-23. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.