File:Motorboat at the Potlatch Festival, circa 1913 (MOHAI 5364).jpg
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[edit]English: Motorboat at the Potlatch Festival, circa 1913 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Motorboat at the Potlatch Festival, circa 1913 |
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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 Potlatch festival photo shows two men participating in one of the festival's boat races on Lake Washington.
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English: Washington, Lake (Wash." Seattle (Wash.) |
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Date |
circa 1913 date QS:P571,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium |
English: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : gelatin, b&w |
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Dimensions |
height: 19 cm (7.4 in); width: 25 cm (9.8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,19U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,25U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Museum of History and Industry |
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Credit Line InfoField | Potlatch Photograph Album, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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