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CAPTION:
The boomerang has been used by Australian Aborigines for hunting and fighting for tens of thousands of years. Longer and heavier boomerangs have a shallow curve while lighter ones, usually 30-75cm long, are thrown with a flick of the wrist which sweeps the boomerang in a wide circle to scare game out into open areas or towards traps, then return to the thrower. Boomerangs are carved from tree branches with the required angle and grain, then smoothed, polished and decorated.