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Aboriginal craft: throwing sticks Hunting birds with throwing sticks in ancient Egypt. The throwing stick or throwing club is a wooden rod with either a pointed tip or a spearhead attached to one end, intended for use as a weapon. A throwing stick can be either straight or roughly boomerang-shaped, and is much shorter than the javelin.
Aboriginal Australians sought out sports like athletics and swimming in part because they had aspects of traditional sports from their community. [1] Traditional sports included boomerang throwing [1] and running. [10] Most Indigenous sports at the time of European arrival were for enjoyment. [11]
[11] [12] The term 'returning boomerang' is used to distinguish between ordinary boomerangs and the small percentage which, when thrown, will return to its thrower. [13] [14] The oldest wooden boomerang artefact known in Australia, excavated from the Wyrie Swamp, South Australia in 1973, is estimated to be 9,500 years old. [11] Boomerangs could ...
Waddies made by the Arrernte people Aboriginal man carrying waddy, woomera (spear-thrower) and spear, South Australia, c. 1876. A waddy, nulla-nulla, leangle or boondi is an Aboriginal Australian hardwood club or hunting stick for use as a weapon or as a throwing stick for hunting animals. Waddy comes from the Darug people of Port Jackson ...
The famous writer Mark Twain as an example of wit and intelligence of the Australian Aboriginal people wrote a chapter in his book Following the Equator about the weet-weet (or kangaroo-rat) [3] But the mentioned chapter is not a simple description of an exotic toy, it is a blunt and critical summary of the white man's genocide actions against indigenous.
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Another man holds a boomerang and a short throwing stick known as a kutjurru. Behind them are two barbed spears and in the fire is a billy can and a recycled tin. [13] The first European who travelled through their territory, Thomas Mitchell, appears to be referring to the Barkindji when he mentions the Occa tribe in the area of Wilcannia. [b]
In Australia, [22] there are aboriginal dances that reenact hunting and combat using traditional weapons such as the boomerang. Sometimes two boomerangs are clapped together as a musical instrument to provide sounds for dances. [23] In New Zealand, Maori have raised the martial art associated with the taiaha and mere to the level of a weapon dance.