This hunting boomerang, or throwstick, was made out of a dense desert hardwood. This hardwood has blonde edges like Mulga, but the color is not as dark. I acquired this boomerang in 2001 from an artifact dealer in Perth, Western Australia. This collector said it was made in the Kimberly region of Western Australia in the 1920s or 1930s. One end of the upper surface is decorated with Aboriginal style line and dot art that is more common in the Kimberly region. The other end is not decorated and it has a smooth polished surface. The lower surface has an adze pecked texture, usually found in Western Australia. There is heavy adze texturing on the same end as the decorated upper surface. The other end has shallow texturing. There are a few minor edge chips, but this is not damage. It is usually found on adze textured boomerangs because the adze will remove small amounts of material from the edges. A very nice example of a hunting boomerang from this region of Australia.