In 2012 at Gora Art Centre, Fate Savari presented a schoolbook she had obtained from her granddaughter. It was filled from front to back with drawings about her ancestral Ömie stories (including the Ömie creation story), histories, culture and clan designs. There were also some loose pages in the front and back of the schoolbook and more drawings on paper wrapped up in a larger drawing on paper. Fate created the book and drawings because she felt a great urgency to record her profound knowledge before she passed away. This is one of the special drawings from that first presentation of drawings.

Fate has drawn Ömie ancestors with traditional Ujawé initiation tattoos on their faces.

Her late husband, Fall Savari, told her the story of how he went inside the guai—an ancestral underground site in the forest on the ouskirts of a village. Pubescent/teenage children stayed in the guai for a period until they reached sexual maturity and were ready for initiation into manhood and womanhood. Before their initiation ceremony boys and girls were tattooed inside the guai by their families. Mens’ entire bodies would be tattooed while only the cheeks of women were tattooed. Fate tells how tattooing had begun on Fall but due to the pain he left the guai and did not go through with his Ujawé initiation but his friend Ureekureh, otherwise known as Tabarigua, did.

In a very similar painting by Fate, the man named Ureekureh is depicted at Borrohojë, one of the villages of Gora in the Gora valley, during the Ujawé ceremonial feast after emerging from the underground guai (tattooing pit). It is a big and lavish celebration attended by the whole community. Through Ureekureh’s nose is a bisone (bone jewellery for initiation nasal septum piercings) and a dubié (ring for nasal septum piercing). His hair has betelnut tied to its ends and he wears a headdress of feathers from birds such as the gojave (parrot) and booroohidahe (eagle). The band of chevrons across his forehead is an aresai, which was made from shells traded from coastal tribes. Around his neck is a necklace known as tamajai which is made from stones from the River Nëhö. The circular motif around his navel is vinohu’e (tattoo design of the bellybutton). He is surrounded by foods prepared for the ceremonial feast including deji’e (yams), mage (taro) and mahubiroge (pig meat).