This image shows an important ritual event that brings together different groups from the region between Haasts Bluff, Kintore and the sandridge desert of western Warlpiri country. The icons depict the various groups gathered to remake the bonds between them and reaffirm their mutual ties. In pre-colonial times, when such far-flung groups met only rarely, perhaps twice in a life-time, these events were of the highest religious importance, and formed the connective thread of desert existence: you could almost say they served to heal and restore the world.