- Date
- 1960
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3002 a-c
- Description
- Three wooden boomerangs. The top of each is slightly convex and the bottom surface is flat. One arm of each boomerang is tilted at a slight angle.a) Dark wood with painted aboriginal designs, in brown, black, white and yellow. The designs include geometric designs on the tips and an insect, a pe…
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- Title
- Boomerang
- Date
- 1960
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 0.8 (a); 23.0(b); 1.5 (c) x 6.0 (a); 8.0 (b); 6.0 (c) x 50.0 (a); 53.0 (b); 48.0 (c) cm
- Description
- Three wooden boomerangs. The top of each is slightly convex and the bottom surface is flat. One arm of each boomerang is tilted at a slight angle.a) Dark wood with painted aboriginal designs, in brown, black, white and yellow. The designs include geometric designs on the tips and an insect, a person, and a kangaroo. The back is stamped “MADE IN AUSTRALIA BY Bill On--.”b) Dark wood with very detailed painted aboriginal designs on the front in black, red, white and yellow. The painting includes geometric and concentric designs, an emu, a turtle, and two people. At the centre bent it’s marked “from CHERBOURG ABORIGINAL SETTLEMENT 1960. QLD. AUST.” and the back is marked with pen ink “BILL GORHAM.”c) Light and dark wood decorated with a stylized kangaroo on the front in brown, black, yellow and white. “Darwin N.T.” is writtten with marker on the front. The tips are also painted with stripes and wavey lines. There are two illegible stamps on the back.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3002 a-c
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