Women in the Lake Sentani and Teluk Yos Sudarso areas traditionally produced maro, or cloths, from different kinds of bark, to which men applied earth pigment designs. Married women wore them as loin cloths, and maro were also displayed on mortuary structures. Additionally, Teluk Yos Sudarso area clans owned such cloths and draped them on the wall of men's houses. Their designs, some containing rows of nonfigural spirals, others incorporating fish, birds, and fauna, early attracted the admiration of Western visitors. Bark cloths are fragile, and few from this region in Euro-American collections pre-date the 1920s. In this freestyle painting of marine motifs on a tan background, which was probably part of a larger maro, the perspective seems to be from above, as though looking down into the water. A human figure grasps the tail of a central turtle-lizard creature, surrounded by a barbed sawfish and other fish. The circular forms with radiating lines suggest jellyfish. This cloth possibly was commissioned by Jacques Viot in 1929 from artists in the village of Tobati on Teluk Yos Sudarso.