On the way to the highly significant Bonyi Bonyi gathering, groups come together for ceremony at a significant stone arrangement called Gummingurru, north of what will become the city of Toowoomba in southern Queensland. As many would be travelling for months, the Kip’ar (un-initiated) partake in a series of initiation ceremonies that involve tests at various locations along their journey. They require a high degree of self-discipline, pain endurance and psychological tolerance. They’re taught their role in society and the lore and laws around upholding these traditions, allowing them to sit in the circles amongst initiated men at the gathering in the mountains, as delegates for their clan or tribes. These rights of passage ceremonies included the allocation of Yurees (totems) to the Kip’ar (initiate). They become one with and the custodian of that Yuree. The recipient has the responsibility of administering the knowledge of how to manage and promote conservation of the yuree species holistically with its associated relationships with all that exists in its ecosystem/s, according to cultural law. This includes things such as breeding times, when and where to hunt to avoid exploitation of resources and being able to identify indicators that exist within nature that dictate these cycles. The stone arrangements on this site depict many yurees.