DESCRIPTION 
Family pack of 3 to 10 Coatarang returning boomerangs.

Three (3) costs $168 - represents a discount of 5%.

Add additional boomerangs as required in the options section. 

This is our most popular returning boomerang, and the best returning Aboriginal made in Australia. It is called a “Coatarang” as it is fatter in the middle than the ends – much like a coat hanger in your wardrobe! The "Coatarang" range are handmade and hand-painted by Joe Ian Skeen Senior, an 87-year-old Aboriginal Elder and third generation traditional boomerang maker.

Joe Skeen is widely acknowledged as the best and most experienced Aboriginal boomerang maker in Australia. He was taught by his father and grandfather over 70 years ago and still makes boomerangs using traditional Aboriginal techniques and designs.

LEFT OR RIGHT-HANDED THROWERS
We cater for left and right-handed throwers and it does make a real difference to your enjoyment. If you are left-handed, you will find it much easier to throw a left-handed designed boomerang. The left-handed boomerangs are designed to spin and circle in the opposite direction to the right-handed boomerang. All our returning handmade boomerangs come in both versions so please make sure you select your dominant hand throwing version.

DIMENSIONS, MATERIAL AND ARTIST AND MAKERS DETAILS
SIZE: 40 cm (18 inches) wide
MATERIAL: Compressed timber
ARTIST: Josh Skeen 
TRIBE: Birri Gubba – in the Bowen area of North Queensland
MATERNIAL: Kuku-Thaipan- North Queensland
MADE IN: Greenbank, Queensland, Australia

ALL ABOUT JOE SKEEN
Joe Skeen is a Kuku-Thaypan 87-year-old elder. He was a little boy when his parents were removed from their traditional homelands and sent to the Palm Island Aboriginal Reserve in North Queensland. In the early 1940`s they were moved again to Cherbourg in South East Queensland. Joe Snr. would often accompany his father when he was hired out to local farmers to work, mostly at cane cutting. It was then that his father taught him how to identify black wattle roots and how to fashion those roots into boomerangs. Among the many people that bought his father’s boomerangs were American servicemen. He still continues his family traditional and makes a variety of different boomerangs including returning, hooked, killer and hunting style boomerangs.

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
A certificate of authenticity is supplied for boomerang, providing details about the heritage and background of the creator of this authentic Australian made Aboriginal artifact.

THROWING INSTRUCTIONS
I provide a 2-page instruction sheet for every boomerang, with diagrams and using my unique SHAPS (Stance, Height, Angle, Power and Spin) training methodology with diagrams to assist you.

WHAT IS A RETURNING BOOMERANG
A boomerang is a curved throwing stick used mainly by Australian Aboriginal people for hunting and warfare.

Boomerangs would often be decorated with carved drawings and paintings of animals and traditional symbols.

The two main types of boomerangs used by Aboriginal people in Australia were the returning and the hunter killers or kylie boomerang.

Unlike the hunter killer boomerangs that are heavier, these returning boomerangs are lighter and meant to return to the thrower. They were primarily used as a training boomerang for younger Aboriginal men, and were also used to scare game and make animals like a flock of birds rise from a lake and fly in a certain direction.

in summary, the traditional Aboriginal returning boomerang:

A. When thrown they would return to the thrower.
B. Most returning boomerangs look like a V upside down
C. Some Aboriginal tribes in North Queensland used a 4-pointed boomerang
D. Returning boomerangs were mainly used to teach young men how to throw boomerangs – before using the Kylie hunting killer boomerang
E. Returning boomerangs were also used to scare game like birds and kangaroos and to hunt for birds

100% AUTHENTIC
This is an authentic Australian made Aboriginal returning boomerang, made in Australia.

CHOOSE: - left or right handed when you order please.
CHOOSE: - gift boxed, cardboard box with boomerang on a bed of wood wool

- Please note that every piece is hand painted, no two boomerangs are the same design and can differ slightly from the one shown in the product pictures.
- The art work on the boomerangs represents traditional Aboriginal art designs