Aborigine wants boomerang to return from Britain
An Aboriginal leader said Friday he wants a boomerang
to return to Australia more than 300 years after it was taken as a
souvenir by celebrated British explorer Capt. James Cook.
The boomerang will be auctioned in London on Sept. 25. Auctioneer
Christie's director Nick Lambourn expects the unmarked 22-inch
(56-centimeter) wooden artifact will fetch up to $113,000.
Cook, who led the first Europeans to discover Australia's fertile east
coast in 1770, collected the boomerang at the site of present day Sydney,
Australia's first British colony.
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to return to Australia more than 300 years after it was taken as a
souvenir by celebrated British explorer Capt. James Cook.
The boomerang will be auctioned in London on Sept. 25. Auctioneer
Christie's director Nick Lambourn expects the unmarked 22-inch
(56-centimeter) wooden artifact will fetch up to $113,000.
Cook, who led the first Europeans to discover Australia's fertile east
coast in 1770, collected the boomerang at the site of present day Sydney,
Australia's first British colony.