Shield and two boomerangs ·  Australia, Central · ID: 3047187

Description

a) Aranda, shield, wood (bean tree), red ochre, kaolin, traces of fighting visible, collection no. “172K 2951”, traces of humidity, h: 67 cm; w: 23 cm; b) classic hunting boomerang, l: 66 cm; c) South Australia, hunting boomerang, l: 61 cm

Comparing literature

Museum für Völkerkunde Freiburg, "Die Kultur der Traumzeit", Freiburg 1991, ill. 64 (a) Jones, Philip, Boomerang, Kent Town 1996, p. 79