Big Boomerang and Spears – Curtin Springs

The subjects are the difficulty and should be stated plainly. Boomerangs and spears are Aboriginal implements, made and used across the continent for thousands of years, and the sources available establish that oversized versions stand at a pastoral roadhouse without establishing who made them, when, on whose initiative, or whether any Aboriginal people were involved or consulted.

That gap matters more here than it would for a giant banana. This is Anangu country, a short drive from one of the most culturally significant sites in Australia, and the difference between a commissioned collaboration and a roadhouse owner's decoration is the difference between two quite different records.

This entry therefore declines to characterise the objects beyond what is documented: they exist, they are at Curtin Springs, and the record of their origin is empty.

Curtin Springs itself has an interesting sideline – the station makes paper from its own native grasses – but that is a separate story from the sculptures out the front.