Description (CMS Description)
Wooden, carved boomerang, curved in one direction and then with a sharp angle back in the reverse direction. Clear marks of chipping/carving. The whole object is covered in red ?ochre pigment. The tip of the hard angle is broken off and missing.
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Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) (Collector) Fredrick John Afford Bateman was a doctor in Alice Springs periodically between 1955 -1959, where he worked both in the hospital there and as a flying medic.Richard Bateman, the collector’s son, in correspondence with CUMAA adds: ‘It was a practice that all weapons, shields, knives were left outside the ward [at the Alice Spring Hospital] and were often unclaimed after the patients left the hospital.’This object is one of a collection of eight boomerangs made during this period. Six have been given to the museum, of which three have been accessioned into the collections. Richard Bateman bequested two more to the CUMAA Handling Collection.
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Author: maa