Bill Yidumduma Harney

As of 2022, he lives at Menngen Station, near Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia, which lies in the traditional lands of the Wardaman people.

His sister was taken as part of the Stolen Generations, but he escaped because his mother covered him in charcoal to hide the whiteness of his skin.

[5] In 1989, Harney's first major solo painting exhibition was held at Darwin Museum, which bought a large sculpture.

[8] In August 2009 he featured in a two-man The First Astronomers show with astrophysicist Ray Norris at the Darwin Festival,[1] and in November 2009 he was prominent in the Message Stick[9] episode on Aboriginal astronomy produced by ABC TV.

In 2020, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Small Body Nomenclature formally approved the asteroid 1979 MR2 as 7630 Yidumduma in honour of his sharing and promotion of traditional Wardaman astronomical knowledge through film, television, and books, including Dark Sparkers and Four Circles.