Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri was one of the founders of the Papunya Tula Art Movement in the early 1970s and presented this shield and boomerang to Queen Elizabeth II during one of her visits to Australia. Papunya Tula has its roots in the sacred art of the Western Desert and has become recognisable worldwide as a symbol of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

The boomerang and shield are painted with aboriginal emblems of dreams and the boomerang is inscribed: A very special boomerang made and painted by Billy Stockman.