The thrower was about 65 cm long.For the spear, I cut a thin sapling approximately 2 m long and about 1.5 cm thick. I carved a cup in the end of the spear for the spur to fit into.

The spear-thrower has been guided at £600-£900, the wunda shield at £300-£400 and the boomerang at £50-£70.” The tribal objects will be offered in Hansons Auctioneers’ March 21 Fine Art ...

A British university has given back four spears taken more than 250 years ago from an aboriginal community in Australia by explorer Captain James Cook.

View Two Australian Aboriginal Spearthrowers and Fire Sticks (Northern Territory and Queensland) By Australian School, 20th Century; carved wood, peg attached by sinew and resin; carved wood, peg ...

A British university has given back four spears taken more than 250 years ago from an aboriginal community in Australia by explorer Captain James Cook.

Four Aboriginal spears taken by British explorer James Cook in 1770, thought to be some of the oldest surviving artifacts collected by any European from Australia, will be repatriated to the La ...

A wooden combat spear lost in a fatal fight between an Aboriginal man and a white settler 160 years ago has been returned to its original owners, in what the families say is an act of reconciliation.

The Australian aboriginal team comprised of stockmen from cattle farms, ... The artefacts in Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum include a boomerang, several clubs, two spear-throwers, ...

Items repatriated include five yimangala (spear throwers) along with five ajamurnda (stringy-bark baskets) and 70 dadikwakwa-kwa, which Worsley described as shell “toy dolls” used by young ...

A British university has given back four spears taken more than 250 years ago from an aboriginal community in Australia by explorer Captain James Cook.