DESCRIPTION 
A rare collector’s item - hand-crafted and painted, black wattle "Comeback" style 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. 

Features traditional dot art design. 

Made and painted in the traditional manner by Josh Skeen, a 5th generation Aboriginal boomerang maker. 

Josh Skeen and his family spend many days along river banks and farms, looking for the right shaped black wattle roots that Josh can shape in the traditional manner that he has been taught by his famous 87 year old father, Joe Skeen. .

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 47 year old Aboriginal boomerang maker Josh Skeen, who has been taught by his famous father Aboriginal Elder, Joe Skeen Snr. Joe was taught by his late father, William Skeen. young boy. 

Josh is a forth generation Aboriginal artefact maker. 

He is widely acknowledged like his father, as one of 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: Josh Skeen
TRIBE: Birri Gubba – in the Bowen area of North Queensland
MATERNIAL: Kuku-Thaipan- North Queensland
MADE IN: Greenbank, Queensland, Australia