48 AM 1550/04
Bill Harney Fire Bats Dreaming 2004
Acrylic & natural ochres on canvas 1220 x 1530mm $5500
Black and brown bat lived in the rock and Deaf Adder also lived in the rock. In Creation time they were people.
Black bat Warlung invented the long fire stick. Brown bat Nullamingming invented the flat wood. Black bat made
up coolamon to carry charcoal and brown bat made another coolamon for powdered charcoal. Deaf Adder Jamba
is the electrician. Black bat took the flat wood and started to rub together and Jamba stood beside it and he told
them I got electricity in my foot and he put his foot in the flat wood and he made electricity go out and when the
bat was rubbing the two sticks together and made sawdust come out and electricity of foot cooked it and made a
flame. Deaf Adder is the character to the left of the painting, black bat in the middle and brown bat to the right.