A long carved wooden Boomerang with incised grooves and hooked shape reffered to by collectors as a "Number seven". According to the MET Museum website : The hooked boomerangs of central and northern Australia were non-returning. Often referred to as "number 7" boomerangs because of their distinctive shape, these boomerangs appear to have been made primarily by the peoples of the Tanami desert region, but were exchanged widely throughout the central and northern regions of the continent along a complex and far-reaching system of inland trade routes. Boomerangs of this type were primarily employed in fighting, but were also used in bird hunting. The Boomerang measures 28.5 x 4.5 inches at widest point. Provenance: The Evan Maurer collection, Ca, USA.

Good, well handled