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 same piece of copper at a higher price than it was previously sold, in their version of an art market. During potlatch, copper pieces would be brought...

copper-colored Copper, a shaped ingot or ornamental sheet of the metal used by indigenous tribes of the North American West Coast region in potlatch ceremonies...

and Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, among others. Pendant; copper (Potlatch Dollars), British Museum, retrieved 2023-01-16 Chemically Tanned, Frye...

departed. The memorial potlatch is a major feature of Tlingit culture. A year or two following a person's death this potlatch was held to restore the...

colonization. In 1885, the Haida potlatch (Haida: waahlgahl) was outlawed under the Potlatch Ban. The elimination of the potlatch system destroyed financial...

vote was granted in 1960. The 1951 amendment to the Indian Act lifted the potlatch ban, though the ban was never fully effective - it had pushed traditional...

bearing the house symbols to distribute in potlatch. Wealth from trade resulted in a Golden Age of potlatch art in the late 19th century, but to curb this...

style and protection of traditional native ceremonies during the Canadian potlatch ceremony ban. Today, Seaweed's work can be found in cultural centers and...

came off this fire turned into mosquitoes. At the end of a Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch ceremony, the host chief comes out bearing a mask of Dzunuḵ̓wa which is...

at a potlatch. The potlatch usually lasted for a week. The most elaborate of Athabaskan potlatches was the funeral potlatch (or memorial potlatch, mortuary...

another in acts of conspicuous consumption analogous to the North American potlatch tradition. Sintashta artefact types such as spearheads, trilobed arrowheads...

Idaho (Anaconda Copper Mining Co.) Elk River, Idaho Headquarters, Idaho (Potlatch Lumber Company) Leadore, Idaho Potlatch, Idaho (Potlatch Lumber Company)...

coast evolved complex social and ceremonial institutions, including the potlatch system, hereditary systems of rank and descent, ceremonial societies, and...

Potlatch on the Northwest Coast. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre. p. 1. ISBN 0-88894-695-3. Hou, Charles (1983). To Potlatch Or Not to Potlatch:...

closing on October 31. The Hagadone Corporation bought the property from Potlatch Corporation in March 1988 via a three-way land swap, and its buildings...

Erstwhile Records; and in 2007 he released Stengam on the French label Potlatch. Since 1982, Roger Miller has developed his own take on prepared piano...

Those who received goods at one potlatch would typically reciprocate by inviting their former hosts to their own potlatch at a later date; such invitations...

within the Cape Mudge Village. The Centre opened in 1987 to hold the Sacred Potlatch Collection which was returned by the Federal Government. The Centre continues...

the potlatch custom of dance, song, and wealth distribution under Section 116 of the Indian Act, confiscated many items including wooden masks, copper shields...

native traditions, such Chilkat weaving, bear hunting, feuds, and the potlatch (a large ceremonial feast). With his understanding of beliefs and values...

Island. Maker of Monsters also explains how the Canadian government banned Potlatch. The film shows Dick working within ancient traditions, and discusses how...

of salmon as a resource and spiritual symbol. Their gift-giving feast, potlatch, is a highly complex event where people gather to commemorate special events...

experiencing a stroke that caused his health to gradually deteriorate. A potlatch, the ceremony for which his art work was often used, was held in his memory...

Kwakiutl arts and culture by secretly maintaining potlatch ceremonies during the Canadian potlatch ban which outlawed these social events and the native...

Gas stations abandoned during the crisis were sometimes used for other purposes. This station at Potlatch, Washington, was turned into a revival hall....

creating Tsimshian dance groups, reviving the traditional ceremony called Potlatch, and passing on knowledge of Tsimshian language. Boxley currently lives...

the redistribution of property which was conducted primarily through the potlatch. Therefore, the governmental prohibitions valid until 1934 (USA) and 1951...

wooden houses, seagoing whaling and war canoes and elaborately carved potlatch items and totem poles. Contact with Europeans brought a series of devastating...

Northwest Coast by Jim McDowell Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch by Aldona Jonaitis Aldona Jonaitis (1998). From the Land of the Totem Poles...