Bill Harney

The story of this painting is in Dark Sparklers. It means ceremony law place and they teach the young ones to dance. The figure to the top right is oodung which means silence. To its left is mulgun which means lie down. Bottom one is lunguss – it means listen. The 2 kids at the bottom right are called woorayweeya. They have come to learn to dance oojinga. The figure in the middle is called yol-low-yin. He is the dancer teaching young one. The left one is gee-de-bun – he has learnt to dance and is now going away. The tracks all around are many people’s footprints – burr-burr.