Yidumduma and nephew Jonas Doctor share traditional Wardaman sign language and modern usage from the streets of Katherine NT. Sign language was handed down from the Dreamtime Buwarraja, to communicate across distances and languages, in ceremony, mourning, hunting and for the deaf. Featuring signs for: riding, shoeing a horse, sick, doctor, Clever Man (Wizard), white man, ghost, Stolen Generation.
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Yidumduma Bill Harney is an Elder and last Senior Male Aboriginal custodian of the Wardaman people of the Victoria Flora, and Katherine River Districts of the Northern Territory of Australia. Born in MUY MUY clan country in the early 1930’s Yidumduma is of the YUBULYAWAN clan.
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