File:Washington Saw Works Company Golden Potlatch float, Seattle, 1912 (MOHAI 12907).jpg

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English: Washington Saw Works Company Golden Potlatch float, Seattle, 1912   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Pierson and Co.
Title
English: Washington Saw Works Company Golden Potlatch float, Seattle, 1912
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.

Organizers of the 1912 Golden Potlatch decided to give the annual parade an industrial focus. Here, a group of men and one young boy gather at the Mercantile Lumber Company float, which featured circular saw blades and a large steel plate, all made by the Washington Saw Company. The men who rode on the float hammered on the steel saws as they moved along the parade route.

Writing on saw in image: Washington Saw Co. Steel Plate. 84 in. Diameter. The Weight 400 lbs. Best Steel in the World.=CHAR(13)=CHAR(13)Embossed on mat recto: Pierson & Co., Seattle Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, July 20, 1912.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Floats (Parades)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Golden Potlatch Festival (1912: Seattle, Wash.); Horses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Parades & processions--Washington (State)--Seattle
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date 1912
date QS:P571,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w
Dimensions height: 9.5 in (24.1 cm); width: 7.5 in (19 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,9.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,7.5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
12907
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
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.
Credit Line
InfoField
MOHAI, Owen L. Hall Lumber Industry photograph collection, 1981.7351.159

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