SYDNEY LAURENCE (1865-1940) ALASKA / NORTHERN PACIFIC. Circa 1931. 40x29 1/2 inches, 101 1/2x75 cm. Condition A-: minor restored loss in upper left corner; creases and minor restoration in margins. Originally distributed on request, this poster came with a printed explanation by Mary Lee Davis, "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).
