DESCRIPTION 
This is one of our more colourful 16 inch returning boomerangs in vivid dot art designs.

Choose from 4 colours - RED - PURPLE - GREEN - YELLOW LEMON

These stunning returning boomerangs are handmade and hand-painted by Josh Skeen, an 47 year-old Aboriginal and third generation traditional boomerang maker.

Josh Skeen, alongside his world-famous father Joe Ian Skeen Senior, is widely acknowledged as one of the best and most experienced Aboriginal boomerang maker in Australia. He was taught by his father Joe since he was 7 years old. Josh 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: 30 cm (16 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 JOSH SKEEN
Josh Skeen is a forth generation Aboriginal artifact maker and painter. He follows in the footsteps of his famous father. For over 40 years, Josh has worked alongside his father Joe, on their family farm 35 kilometers west of Brisbane. 

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