South Australian Museum
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The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of
The South Australian Museum, viewed from Adelaide's cultural boulevard, North Terrace
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The Mortlock Library, part of the State Library of South Australia, forms the west side of the courtyard at the front of the South Australian Museum
14 Pieces, based on the forms of ichthyosaur vertebrae
Boomerang
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A boomerang is a thrown tool typically constructed with airfoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight, designed to return to the thrower. The origin
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…man Paddy Thompson and acquired by anthropologist Norman Tindale in the 1920s. The specially commissioned piti (coolamon), thiparra (shields), wadna (boomerangs), yakadi (walking sticks) and wirri (clubs) have added to the historic items to illustrate the continuation of the tradition. Roy Coulthard is a…
Aerodynamic returning boomerang
An Egyptian boomerang; National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece.
Australian Aboriginal boomerangs
Various types of boomerangs from Australia, India, and Africa