throwing sticks
Tossing wooden projectiles
Throwing sticks are wooden implements designed to be hurled, either as weapons or toys.
The term covers a range of objects from primitive hunting tools to children's fetch sticks for dogs.
A throwing stick may return when thrown (a boomerang) or travel straight to strike prey or enemies.
The museum displayed Aboriginal throwing sticks alongside spears and clubs.
- boomerangsCurved returning missiles
- Aboriginal cultureAustralia's indigenous heritage
- spearsPointed pole weapons
- missilesSelf-propelled guided weapons
- dartsThrown pointed missiles
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- Thrown Weaponsjavelins, spears, darts, harpoons, tomahawks
- traditional gameslacrosse, stickball, shinny, snow snake, hand game
- pottery supplieskiln, potter's wheel, pottery wheel, clay, slip
- huntingdeer hunting, hunting rifle, hunters, tracking, hunting license