Miss Columbia and her family at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909.

• Main Author: Goetze, O. D. (Otto Daniel)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Inuit > Washington (State) > Seattle; Family > Washington (State) > Seattle; Children > Washington (State) > Seattle; Igloo > Washington (State) > Seattle; Exhibitions > Washington (State) > Seattle; Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle; Wash.); Miss Columbia; Esther; Pacific; Yukon; eskimo*; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/4138

This family from Labrador performed in Seattle at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition's "Eskimo Village" in 1909. Pictured are: Zachariah Zad, Esther Eneutseak, Norman Smith, Florence, Miss Columbia, and Chief Aputik. Esther Eneutseak was brought from Labrador to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where her daughter, Columbia was born. Eneutseak recruited other Inuit from Labrador to perform in later expositions, including the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. At the AYPE, Columbia was named "Queen of the Pay Streak", and the most beautiful woman at the exposition. Columbia later went on to write and star in the first Hollywood film with a credited Inuit cast. Caption on image: Eskimo family from Labrador/Seattle, A.Y.P.E '09. Caption information source: Inuit Entertainers in the United States from the Chicago World's Fair through the Birth of Hollywood, by Jim Zwick, 2006. 1 photographic postcard: b&w; 5.5 x 3.5 in.