Thanksgiving. It has resisted commercialization with a focus on family.
The first peoples of the Northwest had a similar tradition. Potlatch.
People gathered with their surplus or lack and made gifts to one another over a feast.
The Museum has a nine foot long Kwakwaka'wakw Indian Dzunk'wa Feast Dish, used in potlatches. Artist Blair Saxon-Hill has chosen this piece from all of the collection as the focus of this month's Thursday artist talk and happy hour.
Blair Saxon-Hill speaks at the Art Museum happy hour www.portlandartmuseum.org/event/artist-talks-and-happy-hour-blair-saxon-hill. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park
6PM $5 members or regular museum admission
