A Rare Boomerang, Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia

Reportedly collected in the Great Sandy Desert in the 1920s
Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Melbourne
American Private Collection, acquired from the above

This boomerang is of an extremely rare and unusual form with its protrusion extending below the central arch. It was reputedly collected in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia in the 1920s. There is a somewhat related example with a similarly carved protrusion extending at the top of the arch in the collection of the South Australian Museum; that example was collected in Central Australia in 1909.