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English: Man on an aquaplane at Potlatch Festival, 1913   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Man on an aquaplane at Potlatch Festival, 1913
Description
English: The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held in July organized by civic boosters hoping to capitalize on the success of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. The event continued for each of the next three summers before being suspended during wartime, and then was started up again as the Potlatch Festival from 1934 to 1941.

The name “Golden Potlatch” appropriates a Chinook Jargon word describing a Native ceremony of celebration and gift giving. It also reflects the importance of the Klondike gold rush to Seattle’s growth. Many organizers and participants in the Golden Potlatch dressed in stereotyped imitations of traditional Native attire, as part of a created Potlatch myth. The appropriation of Native culture in order to market products or events was one common example of discrimination and marginalization faced by Native peoples in the United States.

This 1913 Potlatch festival photo, taken on Lake Washington, shows a man riding an aquaplane pulled by a motorboat. Aquaplanes were an early type of water ski.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Potlatch (Festival) (1913 : Seattle, Wash.); Water skiers; Festivals
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English: Washington, Lake (Wash.); Seattle (Wash.)
Date 1913
date QS:P571,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : gelatin, b&w
Dimensions height: 19 cm (7.4 in); width: 25 cm (9.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,19U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,25U174728
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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Potlatch Photograph Album, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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