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RELATIONSHIPS AND TOTEMS
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Gooboothoo | doves |
Goolayyalilee | pelican |
Oonaywah | black diver |
Gunundar | while diver |
Birriebungar | small diver |
Mounin | mosquito |
Mouninguggahgui | mosquito bird |
Bullah Bullah | butterflies |
Tucki | a kind of bream |
Beewerh | bony bream |
Gulbarlee | shingleback lizard |
Budtha | rosewood |
Goodoogah | yalli |
Wayarah | wild grapes |
Garwah | rivers |
Gooroongoodilbaydilbay | south wind. |
It is said a Maira will never be drowned, for the rivers are a sub-totem of theirs; but I notice they nevertheless learn to swim.
Yubbah, carpet snake, as a kin has almost disappeared, only a few members remaining to claim
Mungahran | hawk. |
Burrahwahn, a big sandhill rat, now extinct here, claims—
Mien | dingo |
Dalleerin | a lizard |
Gaengaen | wild lime |
Willerhderh, or Douran Douran | north wind |
Bralgah | native companion. |
Buckandee, native cat kin, claim—
Buggila | leopard wood |
Bean | myall |
Bunbundoolooey | a little brown bird |
Dunnee Bunbun | a very large green parrot |
Dooroongul | hairy caterpillar. |
Amongst other totems were once the Bralgah, Native Companion, and Dibbee, a sort of sandpiper, but their kins are quite extinct as far as our blacks are concerned; the birds themselves are still plentiful. The Bralgah birds