Old postcards (Part 1): Puget Sound Indians, “Siwash”
Postcards, especially ones from about a century ago, often used Chinuk Wawa for tourism value.
I’m starting a series featuring Chinook Jargon-related postcards.
(A link to all installments in this mini-series.)
Do you have any to share?
Here’s one from coastal Washington State.
I don’t know when it was produced, but it’s from the era of black-and-white photographs getting hand-colored:
“Puget Sound Indians, ‘Siwash,’ Seattle (image source: Hip Postcard)
Stay tuned for more!
