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The copper statue, which weighs between 300 and 400 lbs. (136–181 kg), shows
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Tilikum Place by Myrtle Loughery, a great-great-granddaughter of Chief Seattle, on November 13, 1912. The statue was the first commissioned in Seattle and only the city's second piece of public art in all.
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511:. Seattle Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
477:. Seattle Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
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