[1] The Jarowair maintained an important ceremonial site, near the present-day township of Gowrie Junction, north of Toowoomba and 50 km from the Bunya Mountains.
In his later years he lived with his relative Mrs. Phyllis Hall in Toowoomba and it was in this time that he entrusted Ben Gilbert with traditional lore regarding what turned out to be Queensland's major sacred Bora ceremonial ground.
[citation needed] The site was painstakingly mapped in 1960 by the Queensland Museum under the supervision of Dr. Alan Bartholomai and Kay and Stanley Breedon.
[citation needed] The structure of circles includes several totemic designs, of a turtle (or tortoise), an imposing figure of a carpet snake and an emu, and a bunya nut orientated towards the mountains from where the Aborigines would gather it.
[citation needed] The Jarowair were rapidly dispossessed of their lands in the wake of the large colonial push to take over their territory for pastoral stations in the early 1840s.