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Native American ceremonial feast
Answer for the clue "Native American ceremonial feast ", 8 letters:
potlatch
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Word definitions for potlatch in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, "a gift," from Chinook jargon pot-latch , "a gift," from Nootka (Wakashan) patshatl "giving, gift." Later (1865) in sense "ceremony in which gifts are exchanged."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Potlatch \Pot"latch`\, n. [Chinook potlatch, pahtlatch, fr. Nootka pahchilt, pachalt, a gift.] 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Potlatch is a ceremony among indigenous peoples in North America. Potlatch may also refer to: Potlatch Corp. , a Fortune 1000 forest paper and paperboard producer Potlatch, Idaho , a town in the United States Potlatch River , Idaho Potlatch, Washington ...
Usage examples of potlatch.
Mutt was lucky Kate had hooked up the trailer to bring the potlatch pictures into town.
Kate told her about the potlatch, and the picture, the original of which she had had Jim bring to the hospital.
So little Ta-la-pus set forth with his father and brother, well equipped for the great Potlatch, and the meeting of many from half a score of tribes.
They approved the boy and rejoiced to see the real Potlatch was begun.
When the Potlatch was over, old Chief Mowitch and Lapool and Ta-la-pus returned to Vancouver Island, but no more the boy sat alone on the isolated rock, watching the mainland through a mist of yearning.
The entire post of Katleean was getting ready for the Potlatch, an Indian festival scheduled for the near future.
The Northern Lights the white man calls them, as they leap and play above the frozen peaks, but the Thlinget knows them to be the spirits of the dead, homeless in space but hovering confidently overhead until their relatives on earth can give a Potlatch for their repose.
Whenever a Potlatch blanket is given away the name of a dead man is called and he receives it in the spirit world.
Katleean was beginning to celebrate the Potlatch in the singular way of the male, who, since time immemorial has made a holiday an occasion for a carousal.
Above the roofs of the native houses and straight between the totems of the Thunder-bird and the Bear, rose the black smoke of the Potlatch fire.
To further his own ends and to keep his hold on the natives, he had always donned the robes that went with this conferred honor and had taken an active part in the Potlatch ceremonies.
The never-ceasing beat of the Potlatch drums made a throbbing, low accompaniment to their guttural tones and laughter.
Senott, proud in her Potlatch finery, came close and gazed with friendly eyes at the white visitors.
All about the sides of the great room squatted natives in their Potlatch finery.
Never during the three days of the Potlatch did those drumbeats cease.