Sentence:  The practice of <WSD>'boning</WSD>' was particularly discouraged. Mrs Duncan Kemp remembered that on one occasion the white stockmen on her father's station had tied up an Aboriginal man and soundly beaten him after he had ignored repeated warnings about his <WSD>'boning</WSD>' activities. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.