Jack Byham was one of Australia's most well known boomerang manufacturers. He was a real 'Crocodile Dundee' who spent a lot of time with the Aborigines. Jack made boomerangs and throwsticks using traditional Aboriginal methods and many of his products are mistakenly identified as genuine Aboriginal artifacts. Jack is most famous for his commercial boomerang products that spanned a half century from the Olympic Games in Perth (1956) through the 1990s. Jack made exceptional throwsticks and natural elbow boomerangs and these are in high demand by Australian collectors.

This didjeridu ( or didgeridoo ) was made by Jack Byham in the 1970s or 1980s by hollowing out a log and then decorating it with pyrographic art and pecked texturing in the background. The art depicts a line of kangaroos on one side and a line of emus on the other side. This art is typical of the art usually seen on Aboriginal art from the Yalata Mission in South Australia. From the Brother Brian Thomas estate.