Rather than necessarily being literal, in this picture the artist has sought to depict as wide a range of objects as she could fit in, such as might be found in the lower ("domestic") end of a chief's house. Starting with the hearth and the rack above it as the principal focus, one may identify (top R) a great Lauan gatu vakaviti ceremonial barkcloth, delicately figured and spangled with asterisks in the tutuki pattern. below it, on top of the rack, are an assortment of necked ceramic drinking water-bottles (saqaniwai) and two boiling "saucepans (i-vakariri). Part of another barkcloth drapes over the rack edge, and a large string fishing-net (i-lawa wavau). Another bottle hangs below this, and two more sit on a shelf. In the fireplace itself are four of the great pots (kuro) in which yams and taro were steamed, while the relish of meat, fish or greens cooked in the vakariri, two of which are visible here, one stoppered, like the kuro, with leaves. Hanging from the near corner of the rack are a noke fishing-basket (front), an i-rabo missile sling and a rat-proof wooden food hook with two fish suspended from it. Tied to the rafters are two barbed war-spears, a rogorogowai above a sokilaki, and two more saqaniwai. Tied to the wall are (l-R): an i-ula tavatava lobed throwing-club; two sedreniwaiwai wooden oil dishes; a spurred club with handle-binding (kiakavo vividrasa); a coconut-shell water container in its sinnet harness; and another oil dish.On the floor behind the chief is another cloth, an impossibly large headrest with ornate wooden end and bamboo cross-piece (kali bitu), and two fans of different regional design. A huge five-lobed "citrus-form" water vessel (saqamoli) sits in the lower left of the picture. The chief sits in front of a large tanoa with some branchlets of the yaqona (kava - Piper methysticum) that would make the drink to be placed in it, on the mat in front of it. Rather improbably in this domestic scene, the chief is cradling a totokia battle-hammer. He is wearing his warrior's insignia of a boar's tusk (bati ni vuaka) and a fringed i-oro vakamanumanu cummerbund. In the centre foreground, three rats make a meal of some scraps. Near them is a matauvatu long-bladed stone adze, behind it what looks like a woven container and some ginger (rego). A four-legged i-buburau priest's yaqona dish stands beside a large, dual container ceramic water carrier (kuroniwai), and in front of it an elaborate open vessel, perhaps a vulovulo finger-bowl. Beside that is a bekabeka or lalakai, a food platter woven from coconut leaflet, on which are some unidentifiable objects. A sucking-pig lies on the floor to the right, while through the smoke may be seen the two cooks, one reclining with her neck on a kali ciqi headrest, another type of which can be seen behind the second woman. This woman wears a qato armlet, probably cut from a circle of trochus shell.