Businessman in Native American costume, Golden Potlatch, Seattle, ca. 1913

• Main Author: Nowell, Frank H.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Costumes; Headdresses; Potlatch (Festival) (Seattle; Wash.); Staffs (Sticks); Yukon; Pacific; Tyee; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/5645

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. The first Golden Potlatch opened in July 1911; the event continued for each of the next three summers before being suspended during wartim...