Hook boomerang
Walbiri, Zentral-Australien
wood, dyed with red ochre, flattened, lense-shaped in diameter, a slightly curved handle with hook-shaped head and rounded endings, stone-cut, fluted surface, the grooves repeating the form of the boomerang, dyed with red ochre, slightly dam., minor missing part (backside on top); called «swan neck», used as traditional weapon and hunting boomerang as well, used for hunting birds, by throwing the boomerang into flocking birds.
L: 79 cm

Provenance:
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany
Private Collection, Germany


Lit.: Brüll, M., Die Kultur der Traumzeit, Museum für Völkerkunde Freiburg o. J., p. 63, ill. 49