The painting depicts maway the shooting stars believed by Kwoma people to be the soul (mayi) of powerful men who have recently died flying thought the night sky from the villages which they lived to their final resting places in the underworld beneath one or other of the black lagoons that flank the Washkuk Hills. The design representation of flying soul’s face; this possesses two large black eyes (black roundels outlined in yellow) a large black ovoid nose outlined in both in yellow and white sawtooth motif, and a wide upward-turning mouth. Two roundels outlined in yellow and white at the bottom of the design represent the deceased man’s ‘bones.