Boomerang

[den]

An aborigine gave me this boomerang today. It's more ornimental than a huntilng boomerang, and shows Goanna and her baby following a river from the mountains to a large lake with a billabong to the North East. This will go with my set of hunting spears and woomera. They don't have any decoration. It would be like a mechanic decorating the spanners.



The mountains are the black and red stripes at the bottom. The lake is the circle and the billabong is the horse-shoe shape near the lake. Another river flows in from some mountains on the other side of the lake.

The very big picture is after the cut. Very big.

Comments

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

That's utterly gorgeous.... :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

a design like that would look nice on a stringed instrument.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it just.. do you know anything about the artist who did it, btw?

that is a 'sweet' keepsake!!

[penpouring.livejournal.com]

and that is the biggest jpg I've seen all day...."Crikey!! It's ENORMOUS!! She's a REAL BEEEYOOOTY , isn't she?...... alright, alright, easy there.....we don't wanna hurt ya, we just wanna get a look at ya....she's AMAZING..........."

Re: that is a 'sweet' keepsake!!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

stop doing Steve Irwin

Re: that is a 'sweet' keepsake!!

[penpouring.livejournal.com]

easy there...little fella......I'm not going to hurt you either!

Re: that is a 'sweet' keepsake!!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Crikey!! It's ENORMOUS!! She's a REAL BEEEYOOOTY , isn't she?......

I wonder if that's what Steve Irwin's sweetie tells him when she sees him naked. :)

Re: that is a 'sweet' keepsake!!

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Nooooooo...that was a visual I just did NOT need! The accompanying text is even worse! Make it stooooop!!!!!

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I agree with TSJAFO. I did not need to know this.

[lonita.livejournal.com]

Gawd that's beautiful... why did he give it to you? It's such an incredible gift.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

He makes and sells them to tourists. He gave them to me because he's a mate of Dad.

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

gorgeous. just simply beautiful.
hope the tourists pay big bucks for 'em.

[ldy.livejournal.com]

How gorgeous! I'm astounded!

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Wow! What an amazing talent!
I wish I were that good with a boomerang.

Says me, who has a Van Gogh in the bathroom, A photo of waxy cap mushrooms in the kitchen, and a watercolor with the now non existant WTC on my walls.
That's because I haven't got frames for the posters yet:).

[smof.livejournal.com]

a) what's a Billabong? b) what's a woomera? and c) I WANT ONE!!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Woomera's a rocket launcher. ;) (I've actually been to Woomera, SA. I love the name connection, even if it was an accident.)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Woomera and the rocket range were named after the spear trower.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Really? I was told (way back then) that the name was coincidental.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

a) a billabong is an "ox-bow" that lake formed when a river made a short cut and isolated a bend.

b) a woomera is a long, dish-shaped stik with a handle at one end and a hook at the other. They are used to add force to a thrown spear by effectively extenting the thrower's arm. check this out:

http://www.flight-toys.com/artifacts/gh14.html

c) tough. 8)