Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this library names people who have passed away.
Wardaman
Sky Boss
Wardaman published accounts, through Bill Yidumduma Harney, put the Sky Boss’s head at the Coalsack.
Dark Sparklers is the densest published Wardaman sky book. It is copyrighted. This essay paraphrases the Dawes Review and the songline paper, not the book’s pages.
Harney could name most naked-eye stars and how the whole pattern turns through the night and year. That memory feat is astronomy as education.
/sky’s Wardaman pack is a navigation sky: Coalsack head, Milky Way serpent, ecliptic road. It is not a dump of sacred names from the withdrawn Mountford volume.
Mercury 91 is not affiliated with any Aboriginal Land Council, Torres Strait Islander organisation, museum, or Stellarium. This library cites published ethnoastronomy. It is not a partnership and not a single pan-Aboriginal sky.
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