A boomerang which is designed to return to the thrower.
two icons of Aboriginal culture are the curved returning boomerang and the didgeridoo
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- A returning boomerang is made to spin through the air in a curve and return to the thrower.
- Inexperienced throwers can be clobbered by their returning boomerang.
- There is some conjecture that returning boomerangs could have been used for flushing certain game.
- Surprisingly, the non-return boomerang is aerodynamically more complex than the returning boomerang.
- Most scholars believe that returning boomerangs didn't serve much of a functional purpose in hunting.
- Traditionally, returning boomerangs are lightweight and made of wood.
- In south-eastern Australia in particular, returning boomerangs were used to hunt waterbirds.
- The returning boomerang is one of the wonders of human ingenuity.
- There are 3,300-year-old returning boomerangs in Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt.
- So what makes a returning boomerang come back?