The collection includes a woomera, which is a stick used for throwing a spear. In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the symbolism of ...

Four Aboriginal spears that were brought to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago have been repatriated to Australia in a ceremony at Trinity College in Cambridge. The artefacts ...

One of the most famous paintings in the First Fleet collection depicts an encounter between British colonialists and Aboriginal Australians, when the British Governor was wounded with a spear. In the ...