SEARCHING FOR SMALL OCTOPI ON THE REEF AT LOW TIDE, SAMARI, BRITISH NEW GUINEA.

While sketching at Samari I remember seeing these men; they were busy poking under stones and coral with short sticks for octopi. These sticks very soon became soft and bent at the end; they then came to me to have them sharpened with my penknife. These small octopi form a part of the natives’ food. In the distance is the island of Sariba.