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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.



Date: 25 Mar 2002 15:58 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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)

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