Boat builder of Iconi, Grande Comore

Photograph of a Comorian fisherman building a dugout canoe, taken during the coelacanth research expedition of 1972. The Iconi fishermen were vital in the success of the expedition as they provided the opportunity to capture the live specimens.
On 22 March 1972 at 2am, Madi Youssouf Kaar caught a live specimen while fishing off the coast of Iconi, Grande Comore confirming the first discovery by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer. Other specimens were caught off the waters around Anjouan and Grande Comore. This is figure 20 of a review lecture delivered 1 February 1979 at the Royal Society: Some advances in Coelacanth biology by Nicholas Adams Locket, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.