"We are all carpet snake people. We are linked with this land, and that old carpet snake. He is still with us. We are all brothers - the carpet snake people. We connect right across this land, along the song lines and tracks of our ancestors."

A vibrant and colourful carpet snake weaves its way through Cobb+Co Museum's newly designed Indigenous gallery, the Binangar Language Centre.

The carpet snake is the ancestral totem for Aboriginal groups from this region. The new display highlights the continuing respect and relationship to the land for Aboriginal families. Historically the land had provided them with food and natural resources such as fibre, sandpaper and tools.

Traditionally they lived on kangaroos, possums, fish, honey, fruits and grubs. Approximately every three years, the large bunya pines in the Bunya Mountains produced a bumper crop of bunya nuts, enticing large numbers of Aboriginal people from hundreds of kilometres to gather for the Bunya Nut Festival.

The Gummingurru Stone arrangement, located near a permanent stream north of Toowoomba, was an important meeting and ceremonial place for groups travelling to and from the Bunya Nut Festival.

Aboriginal people of the Toowoomba region and their culture have survived. Today other Aboriginal people from many parts of southern Queensland call Toowoomba home and together they contribute to a vibrant community.