SYDNEY LAURENCE (1865-1940) ALASKA / NORTHERN PACIFIC. Circa 1931. 40x30 inches, 101x76 cm. Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul. Condition B+: tears and abrasions at edges; creases in margins and image; pin holes in top corners. Paper. Originally distributed on request, this poster came with a printed explanation by Mary Lee Davis, which read, "Potlach means giving - in the Chinook jargon of the Northwest coast - and to the Northwest Indian peoples, a potlach is a festival of giving to which one's family, neighbors, friends or even whole tribes are summoned, from far and near . . . The magnificent cedar boats of our Haida and Thlingit Indians . . . are among the most perfect treasures of American-Indian craft. [They were] worked out from giant cedar trunks by charring and chipping, sometimes nearly 100 feet in length" Zega 107 (var).
