Boomerang - by Aboriginal Artist Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri

This Australian Aboriginal returning boomerang is designed by renowned Aboriginal artist Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri. It's an authentic Aboriginal boomerang that comes with a beautiful display stand to show off your art.

Boomerang details:

• Genuine returning boomerang
  
• Comes with extensive artist biography
• Royalties paid to the artist
  
• Comes with a display stand

About Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri

Wentja’s artwork is included in major Australian galleries Aboriginal collections. She loves to paint the stories of where her family camped and the surrounding landscape. Wentja is the daughter of one of the original founders of the Western Desert art movement; Shorty Lunglptp Tjungurray.

Will my boomerang return?

You need to follow the instructions and practice throwing. Additionally, if it’s too windy, then your boomerang is likely to fly where it wants and not back to you!

A bit more about boomerangs

Traditionally non-returning boomerangs were used to hunt and kill prey. Returning boomerangs were mainly used for having fun. Either way, when throwing a boomerang, it’s completely different to a frisbee. Instead it needs to be thrown almost vertically, with a lot of spin power behind it. Watching a boomerang return can seem like the magic of a bird soaring on the wind.

Boomerangs have been discovered across the world. From Ancient Egypt to India and even the United States where Native Americans in California and Arizona used non-returning boomerangs. Here in Australia, Aboriginal boomerangs were traditionally used for:

• Hunting tools
• Fighting
• Digging e.g. food and then cutting it
• Sport
• Musical instruments e.g. music sticks
• Making fire by creating friction through rubbing

Boomerangs were made of wood and came in all shapes and sizes and this is still the case. Boomerangs used in sport however are made of typically made of special plastics or aircraft plywood.