Aussie throwing-stick

Usage examples of womera.

I was looking, a native shewed himself, and running a little way towards the spot where I stood, cast a womera at me.

I could take aim at the native, the womera, skimming through the air, returned to the spot from which the native had cast it.

I found that the blow of the womera had been so severe, that it had almost deprived me of the use of my leg.

I was in some pain, and limped a good deal at first from the effects of the womera which had struck me on the leg, but as I got warm the pain left me, and I ceased for a time to feel much inconvenience from the wound.

Their only weapons are the spear and the waddy, and the crescent-shaped womera which they hurl at their enemies in battle, and at the kangaroo in hunting.