DESCRIPTION 
This is our new gift pack consisting of 3 authentic Australian Aboriginal items in a gift pack:

- Returning boomerang burnt art and colored
- Message stick
- Bullroarer

All 3 items are nestled on a bed of wood wool (made from a farm in Tasmania), in a natural kraft cardboard box with a lid, with an accompanying gift card made from recycled paper and natural inks from Earth Greetings.

DIMENSIONS, MATERIAL AND ARTIST AND MAKERS DETAILS
BOOMERANG SIZE: 40 cm long (18 inches)
BULLROARER: 37 cm (15 inches) long and 7 cm wide (3 inches) at one end and 5 cm (2 inches) wide at the other end, 1 cm ((0.8 inches) thick
MESSAGE STICK: 37 cm (15 inches) long
MATERIAL: Australian native timbers
FINISH: Hand painted using acrylic paint
ARTIST: Josh Skeen 
TRIBE: Birri Gubba – in the Bowen area of North Queensland
MATERNIAL: Kuku-Thaipan- North Queensland
MADE IN: Greenbank, Queensland, Australia

WHAT IS A RETURNING BOOMERANG
This is a 18-inch-wide returning boomerang featuring burnt art designs and different types of native animals. The burnt art design features animal tracks at both ends of the boomerang matching the type of animal painted on the 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

WHAT IS A MESSAGE STICK
The message stick is an authentic Australian made Aboriginal message stick, handmade and hand painted by prominent Aboriginal artist and artifact maker Josh Skeen.

Message sticks are a form of communication between different Aboriginal tribes. Aboriginal tradition says they were passed between different clans and language groups to establish information and transmit messages. They were often used to invite neighboring groups to corroborees, set-fights and ball games. Josh Skeen says they were also sometimes used like a passport granted by a tribal elder to a messenger to show other tribes as the messenger asked permission to travel across their land. Aboriginal elders from different tribes respected each other and message sticks were used like an official travelling document and the carrier was treated with respect and allowed safe passage.

WHAT IS A BULLROARER
An ancient Aboriginal instrument used to communicate by swinging the bullroarer in rapid circles from a length of twine. The width of the paddle like bullroarer and its thin wooden design produce a type of haunting/warping sound at low frequencies that can be heard of vast distances, particularly if used on top of a hill. You must twirl the twine/string so it will unwind when swung in a circle by your side or over your head.

MAKER AND ARTIST
These traditional artifacts have been handmade and hand painted by prominent Aboriginal artist and artifact maker Josh Skeen. Josh is a fourth-generation Aboriginal. He is the son of world-famous boomerang maker 87-year-old tribal elder Joe Skeen Senior, and works alongside his father at their farm every day in Brisbane, Australia. This message stick and set of clapsticks has been painted in traditional Aboriginal track designs by Josh Skeen.

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
We provide a certificate of authenticity for each item in this gift pack, stating the heritage of the maker, Josh Skeen. We guarantee that all products are hand made in Australia and genuine handcrafted by Australian Aboriginal peoples.