Octopus

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I have many stories about octopus experiences in my life and a couple come to mind that are behind the inspiration for this OCTOPUS.

Back in the late 1970's I was fresh out of the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art in Hazelton, BC. I went to my home village of Kitkatla that summer and was out fishing for crabs with an elder when we came across this very large octopus. We managed to catch it and bring it on board. Chester, the elder told me that young men used to prove their bravery by reaching up inside the octopus arms to grab it's beak and pull it out while it was still alive thus ending it's life and showing great courage. I then took the large octopus and followed the instructions and we enjoyed a fresh meal.

When I moved to Tofino and opened Eagle Aerie Gallery I also did a lot of scuba diving in the waters around Tofino. When the diver from the Stanley Park Aquarium came to Tofino to collect species I was his assistant. We recovered a number of live octopi and I always remember a tiny octopus that we had recovered by accident. I like to think that the large octopus was the mother and the little octopus we captured that day was one of the offspring and they were hauled off to live together in Vancouver.

Roy Henry Vickers