TITLE: Design of the eye, teeth of the river fish, spots of the wood-boring grub, Ömie mountains, Ujawé initiation design of the navel, and Papuan Hornbill beaks.

The border and bands are known as orriseegé (paths/pathways) and provide a compositional framework for the design. The ort' (path) designs are ancient and originate from the time of the Ancestors and relate to the intricate footpaths that run through food gardens and garden plots.

The concentric square motif is nuni'e, the design of the eye. The nuni'e design can also be found woven on armlets and waistbelts which are made from numise (yellow orchid fibre), iukire (black orchid fibre) and ninuhe (brown orchid fibre). Between the nuni'e designs, are a combination Of two designs - dahoru'e, the design of the Ömie mountains, which references the sacred ancestral geography of Ömie territory; and visuanö'e, the teeth of the river fish. The dahoru'e mountain design can also be seen in the Outermost orriseegé border.

The spots are a design called sabu ahe representing the spots which can be seen on the sides ofa wood-boring grub. This grub is sacred to Ömie people as it plays an important part within the creation story of how Huvaimo (Mount Lamington) came to be volcanic. It is a traditional sori (tattoo design) which was most commonly tattooed running in one line under both eyes.

In the outer bands of orriseegé are the zigzag dahoru'e mountain design, as detailed above, but combined with bubori andi'e, the beaks Of the Papuan Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus). There is a spiritual element to the hornbill beak design. In one version of the story of how the first Ömie Ancestors emerged onto the surface of the earth from Awai'i underground cave at Vavago, a man used his hornbill beak forehead adornment as a tool to chisel his way through the rock and into the light of the world.