Bonefish (the Bullroarer Ancestor)

Bonefish is the pulwaiya of McConnel's 'Bonefish and Bullroarer totems', an ancestral being tied to the sacred bullroarer and the auwa increase-sites of Wik-Mungkan country.

Domains

• totemic increase

Powers

• to carry and sound the sacred bullroarer

Sources

• Ursula H. McConnel, 'Myths of the Wikmunkan and Wiknatara Tribes', Oceania 1, no. 3 (1931): 343-379.
• Ursula H. McConnel, Myths of the Mungkan (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957).