1) Eating party 2) Indian ceremonial festival 3) Northwestern native ceremony 4) Tribal ceremonial feast
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1) Party
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A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States, among whom it is traditionally the primary economic system. This includes the Heiltsuk, Haida, Nuxalk, Tlingit, Makah, Tsimshian, Nuu-chah-nulth, Kwakwaka`wakw, and Coast Salish cultures. Potlatches are also a common f....
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[convention] Potlatch is an annual non-profit science fiction convention held in the Pacific Northwest region of North America since 1992. Unlike most SF conventions, Potlatch designates a `Book of Honor` rather than author, editor, fan, and/or artist `Guests of Honor;` the appellation `Book of Honor` does not preclude works from other medi...
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[software] Potlatch is an editing tool for OpenStreetMap geodata using Adobe Flash. It is one of the two editors embedded directly within the OpenStreetMap website. While the JOSM editor is particularly suited for large-scale edits, Potlatch tries to make it easy for new users to contribute. Potlatch requires a web browser with at least ver...
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[steamship] Potlatch was a steamship which was operated on Hood Canal from 1912 to 1917, on Puget Sound from 1917 to 1937, although the vessel was little used after 1917. ==Design and construction== Following the loss of the nearly-new but wooden steamship Clallam in 1904, Joshua Green, president of the Puget Sound Navigation Company, owner...
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• (n.) Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it. • (n.) Hence, a feast given to a large number of persons, ...
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A festival and distribution of gifts, a feast.
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ceremonial distribution of property and gifts to affirm or reaffirm social status, as uniquely institutionalized by the American Indians of the ... [15 related articles]
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Ceremony of West Coast American Indian peoples in which the host gave away property in order to raise the prestige and social rank of the clan. Potlatches were practised among the
Tlingit, Chilkat,...
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Pot'latch` noun [ Chinook
potlatch ,
pahtlatch , from Nootka
pahchilt ,
pachalt , a gift.]
1. Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesme...
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noun a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impo...
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