Five Aborigine boomerangs

Five Aborigine boomerangs

Australia

three with wide channelled grooves, 73.5cm and 70cm long, the lighter wood with collection number A28 and with an inscribed label THIS BOOMERANG IS OF THE PULLANE COLLECTION. LATE 19TH CENTURY, FROM THE (AROCENTA .?AVOCENTA) TRIBE WEST OF ALICE SPRINGS: A HUNTING (KILLING) BOOMERANG, 65.6cm long, another with fine incised grooves, 62cm long, and the fifth with facet cuts, 90.3cm long. (5)