Western Queensland Fighting Boomerang

This boomerang has a dark, glossy patina and is well carved on the convex side with repeated lunettes infilled with modified cross-hatching, between narrow, vertical bands filled with repeated ‘V’ motifs.

The reverse is plain.

Each end has been filed to a point.

The boomerang has a dark patina, as mentioned, is of hardwood, and without cracks or losses. Most probably it has been carved with sharpened flint chisels.

The boomerang was found in the UK and most probably has been in the UK since colonial times.