potlatch

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Kind of a last contribution to my weird friends on here—a potlatch, if you will.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2022

One of the earliest pieces to enter the collection, in 1883, the canoe was embellished for exhibition in 1910 with figures representing Tlingits on their way to a potlatch ceremony.

From New York Times • May 5, 2022

As the characters make their winding way toward the vaunted potlatch, there are passages of quiet beauty, deep emotion and sharp observation.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020

Echo-Hawk’s family was adopted into the tribe in a potlatch with “a huge ceremony — it was the official, Athabascan way.”

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2018

He sent a large canoe with eight paddle-men to take me to the potlatch.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange