Dark Sparklers (Paperback Book)
Title: Dark Sparklers: Yidumduma's Aboriginal Astronomy, Northern Territory
Authors: Hugh Cairns and Yidumduma Bill Harney
Edition: 2nd
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 0975090801
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: H.C. Cairns
Dimensions: 22 x 15 x 2.3 cm
Length: 226 pages
Price includes shipping (Australia-wide)
All proceeds go to the Australian Association for Astronomy in Culture, Inc. (Charity)
Bill Yidumduma Harney is Senior Aboriginal Elder of the Wardaman community west of Katherine N.T. He is well-known through his 1996 book Born Under the Paperbark Tree, and the 2002 SBS film of his family and land, the Menngen White Cockatoo Country. The rock art of this area is famous for striped figures of the Lightning Brothers and other Spiritual Ancestors; and his tourist ventures give large numbers of people the chance to see these Dreamings of his people. Stockman, land rights pioneer, story-teller par excellence and original painter, this custodian of sites as well as stories has always talked of the moon and stars On Top. In 1998 he asked Dr Hugh Cairns if he would write a book with him on his astronomy... Dark Sparklers is the result, and above all is an intriguing insight into a rather amazing modern Aboriginal Elder who has a cosmic view of life within his earthy
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