Examples of 'potlatch' in a sentence
Meaning of "potlatch"
Potlatch: a ceremonial feast or gift-giving festival practiced by various Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States, often involving elaborate displays of generosity, hospitality, and social status
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- A ceremony amongst certain indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest in which gifts are bestowed upon guests and personal property is destroyed in a show of generosity and wealth.
- A communal meal to which guests bring dishes to share; a potluck.
- To give; especially, to give as a gift during a potlatch ceremony.
- To carry out or take part in a potlatch ceremony.
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The potlatch usually lasted for a week.
Andy really understood the concept of potlatch.
The important potlatch ceremony was included in this ban.
Only rich people could host a potlatch.
The next potlatch will grow from there.
I was hoping you would make the potlatch.
Potlatch owns only domestic timberlands.
We got some blankets for the potlatch festival.
Potlatch owns only domestic timber.
Looks to me more like a funeral potlatch.
For the potlatch festival.
They might be wary of this sort of potlatch in general.
A potlatch was an enormously expensive undertaking.
Giveaways are usually the main feature of the modern potlatch.
Potlatch guests were important because they acted as witnesses to the event.
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She took care of my daughter and son at the potlatch.
The potlatch system and clan system continue to play an important role.
Shamans also had political power and oversaw potlatch celebrations.
A potlatch was given.
When you do a potlatch.
He opposed the potlatch ban and spoke out against repression of traditional religion.
Local clans are considering a memorial potlatch to honor the ancient man.
As an important vegetable families maintained rights to access patches through potlatch law.
To your potlatch.
A community potlatch celebration typically follows the pole raising to commemorate the event.
This act of giving away your wealth was one of the main acts in a potlatch.
Giving away material wealth at a potlatch was a way of maintaining and improving social standing.
Potlatch takes the form of a ceremonial feast traditionally featuring seal meat or salmon.
Punishment for engaging in potlatch practice could entail two to six months in prison.
Different generations are convened to evoke transmission that is nonverbal but arises from a bodily potlatch.
Zahavi has invoked the potlatch ceremony as a human example of the handicap principle in action.
Totem poles are typically not well maintained after their installation and the potlatch celebration.
During the potlatch ceremony blankets would distributed among the attendants as a show of wealth.
It was also meant to be easier to spell than Potlatch.
Whenever you held your potlatch you were obligated to return these gifts with interest.
This is what happened in the Potlatch case.
A modern potlatch can bring forward a hundred or more button blankets from the participants.
Types of songs and dances used at a Potlatch.
The family would host a potlatch and bestow the new ancestral name on the person.
Paula was born and raised in the Potlatch area.
Europeans observed that the potlatch was a way of fighting with property rather than with weapons.
The fresh moose meat is essential to the Athabaskan funeral potlatch.
The key feature that opposes potlatch to direct market exchange is thus the temporal dimension.
Potlatch was the traditional way the Nuxalk established laws and recognized significant events.
The Raven with a stack of potlatch rings completes the composition.
Often a potlatch host will fully deplete their savings and give away their entire material wealth.
Thus it would be excellent to publish Potlatch at the same time or nearly so.
Talaysay tours emphasize the rich diversity of cultures that developed via the Potlatch.
This potlatch also gave the four clans in Metlakatla the opportunity to enact traditional commemorations.
It refers to a native festival known as Potlatch that Boas has documented.
