Fate has painted very strong, important Dahorurajé clan designs - varib’e and mahuva’ojé. The main plant emblem designs are the Dahorurajé clan design of varib’e, a small palm. The solid black triangles are mahuva’ojé (mahero mwe ijeh’e), pig’s hoofprints - showing how the food garden has been trampled and destroyed by hungry pigs.

Fate explains that the red and yellow coloured, crosshatched markings seen through the work are referred to as jajiv’e and are often used in customary Ömie paintings to fill the spaces. Note: The presence of jajiv’e in a painting is usually indicative of the work of a highly trained painter—rarely seen, and associated with a pre-contact style of Omie barkcloth painting.

Fate has also included the following designs:

~ warubö han’e - the leaves of the warubé plant.

~ seve - small black palm (used to make the floor of houses).

~ ije behe - plant stem.

~ The dots are sabu deje, representing the spots which can be seen on the sides of a wood-boring grub. This grub is sacred to Ömie people as it plays an important part within the creation story of how Huvaimo (Mt. Lamington) came to be volcanic. It is a traditional sor’e (tattoo design) which was most commonly tattooed running in one line under both eyes. Today it is applied to Ömie people’s faces with natural pigments for dance performances.

~ The curved lines are nenyai, a white seashell forehead adornment worn by women. Fate says these were made “in the times of the Ancestors” and are still worn today. Ömie people obtained the seashells from coastal tribes of Oro Province by means of trade and they also collected them from the beach. Seashells were a foreign, rare and beautiful material from the faraway coast so they were highly valued in the Ömie mountains and would be displayed as a form of wealth on both men and women’s jewellery. Fate’s father Lokirro told her about his travels to find and trade for seashells on the coast.

~ The lines that run diagonally are ije bi’weje – boys cutting the leaves of a tree. Fate explains: “The mother was cleaning the bush to make a garden with her two young sons. The boys climbed a tree to cut all of the branches and leaves down. The branches fell down and the mother took all of the leaves and threw them away. Then the mother got plenty of bananas, taro and yam to plant in their newly cleared garden. When they finished planting all of the plants, they ate all of the food from the garden and lived a long life.”

~ The criss-cross design are mi’ija’ahe, animal bones found while digging in the garden.

~ The small black infilled triangles are moköjö bineb’e, the red chest feathers of the parrot. The moköjö bird appears in several Dahorurajé and Sahuoté clan stories. The birds often appear as a flock in the form of a cloud, stealing children or collecting deceased children and carrying them/delivering them to the ancestor spirit villages high on the volcano Huvaimo and other mountaintops where deceased Ancestors reside. In the old stories, the parrots also commonly communicate and bring messages of warning to Ömie people.

~ The chevron (arrow-tip) design that run through the orriseegé and intersecting lines is buboriano’e, beaks of the Papuan Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus).