The Mamandabari are the Two Men, a pair of ancestral heroes whose travels across the Tanami laid down the road of the Kajirri (Gadjari) male initiation. Meggitt recorded their song cycle at Lajamanu in the 1950s as the compilation of secret male episodes that gives the initiation its shape, and Stephen Wild later documented the music and dance of the same tradition. Their performance is the model that living men re-enact, and the incised boards and ground designs of the cycle encode the sequence of their journey. Sources differ on whether this pair is the same as the Western Desert Wati-Kutjarra: in the Tanami Warlpiri tradition the Two Men are called the sons of Wawulja, while scholars such as Watson identify the eastern and western cycles and others keep them apart.