Boomerang

Boomerang from western Victoria or south-east South Australia. Typical returning type for this extended region. Hunting type. Collected by Sir John Franklin or his wife Jane, while he was governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). Additional information from South Australia Museum, Adelaide.

Credit: On loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, from the Hopton Hall Derbyshire Collection. Kindly lent by the Gell Muniment Trustees