DESCRIPTION 
A rare collector’s item - hand-crafted and painted, black wattle hooked hunting boomerang.

Black wattle timber is very hard to find and this hooked hunting killer boomerangs is handmade and painted by a master craftsman. 

Made and painted in the traditional manner by 87-year-old Aboriginal Elder, Joe Ian Skeen.

Joe Skeen and his family spend many days along river banks and farms, looking for the right shaped black wattle roots that Joe can shape in the traditional manner that he was taught over 70 years ago.

This wonderful boomerang comes in a gift box on a bed of wood wool, with a gift card from an Australian Aboriginal artist.

THIS IS A GENUINE KILLER HUNTING BOOMERANG
This is a traditional hunting and killing boomerang. It is meant to travel in the direction thrown and not return to the thrower. This type of boomerangs is designed to curve very slightly when thrown. This allows it to stay in the air long enough to cover a larger distance.  Australian Aboriginal people used these large boomerangs to hunt birds, kangaroos and emus. These non-returning boomerangs are larger and heavier than the returning boomerangs and have a distinct hook shape.

BOOMERANG MAKER AND ARTIST
This traditionally made hooked hunting "Killer" boomerangs is made and painted by 87 years old Aboriginal Elder, Joe Skeen Snr, whose late father, William Skeen, taught him this tradition as a young boy. 

Joe Skeen is a Kuku-Thaypan elder and third generation Aboriginal artefact maker. 

He is widely acknowledged as Australia’s best and most famous maker and painter of boomerangs in Australia.

NATIVE TIMBER DIFFERENCES FOR EACH BOOMERANG
Please note that each black wattle hunter killer boomerang is hand made from available native timbers and that each will have different wood grains and vary slightly in size.

GIFT BOXED
This wonderful boomerang comes in a gift box on a bed of wood wool, with a gift card from a Australian Aboriginal artist.

DIMENSIONS, MATERIAL AND ARTIST AND MAKERS DETAILS
SIZE: 22 inches long
MATERIAL: Black wattle Australian native timber
MAKER and ARTIST: Joe Skeen
TRIBE: Birri Gubba – in the Bowen area of North Queensland
MATERNIAL: Kuku-Thaipan- North Queensland
MADE IN: Greenbank, Queensland, Australia