In early July 1972, a Warlpiri man invited me to a ceremony he was organising to shorten the night. As a new arrival in central Australia, I assumed that this must be an annual event but to my surprise found that it was twenty-four years since the ceremony had been previously held. At the time I was unable to get an explanation as to why the hiatus or the decision to hold it then. Fifty years later all has become clear with the help of a photograph, shedding light on ritual, politics, succession and social change.

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