Tiwi Culture places special significance on the Pukumani (mourning) ceremony. Mourners are decorated using ochres collected from Country as well as woven pandanus and feather body ornaments to disguise themselves from the spirit of the deceased. Not to be confused with a funeral, Pukumani is a ceremony for closing out the mourning period, often being held a year or two after someone passes away. For the ceremony, inlaws are commissioned to make and decorate carved tutini poles, tunga (folded bark bags) and a large shade of coconut leaves under which song and dance is performed to honour the deceased person and put their spirit to rest on Country. The immediate family often have the most elaborate body painting so the spirit of their family member does not recognise them and tempted to stay rather than return to Country. Yirrinkiripwoja (bodypaint designs) that are applied to dancers bodies, the tutini poles and tunga for the ceremony is the source of many contemporary Tiwi art and designs. Much has been written about how Tiwi body paint designs are based on the premise of disguise and are therefore inherently innovative and forever evolving in new ways. The shortening of the word to Pwoja – also refers to the toothed ironwood body painting comb often used instead of a brush to apply the pwanga (dots) in short straight lines.