DESCRIPTION 
This is a great sounding set of hard wood Aboriginal clap sticks. They are made from Australian black wattle timber and shaped and hand painted by forth generation Aboriginal artist and artifact maker Josh Seen in Queensland; Australia.

SOUND
These hard wood clap sticks produce a deep, sharp and loud clapping sound.

An ideal instrument for a group as they will be heard distinctly amongst other musical instruments. 

DIMENSIONS, MATERIAL AND ARTIST AND MAKERS DETAILS
CLAPSTICK SIZE: 30 cm (12 inches) long, height is 3.5cm (1.4 inches), across is 30mm (1.2 inches)
MATERIAL: Black wattle timber
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 ARE CLAP STICKS
Australian Clap Sticks are the main traditional percussion instrument of all Aboriginal people. They are used to provide rhythmic accompaniment for song and dance. They are often used alongside two wooden boomerangs that are also clapped together in Aboriginal musical song and dance. Clap sticks consist of two sticks crafted from various woods and are often intricately decorated. The usual technique employed when using clap sticks is to clap the sticks together to create a rhythm that goes along with the song.

They are called bimli or bilma by the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.

MAKER AND ARTIST
Traditional Australian Aboriginal clap sticks, handmade and painted by leading 4th generation Aboriginal artist and artifact maker, Josh Skeen. He is the son of world-famous boomerang maker 86-year-old tribal elder Joe Skeen Senior, and works alongside his father at their farm every day in Brisbane, Australia. This set of clap sticks has been painted in contemporary Aboriginal art designs by Josh Skeen.

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
We provide a certificate of authenticity for each boomerang on a stand, stating the heritage of the maker, Josh Skeen, and providing other details about this hand-made authentic Aboriginal artefact. We guarantee that all products are hand made in Australia and genuine handcrafted by Australian Aboriginal peoples.

PLEASE NOTE THAT EACH CLAP STICK IS HAND MADE FROM AVAILABLE NATIVE TIMBERS AND THAT EACH WILL HAVE DIFFERENT WOOD GRAINS AND SLIGHTLY VARY IN SIZE.