DCHP-3

donation feast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

See 1964 quote at potlatch (def. 2a).

See: potlatch ((n.))(def. 2a)

Quotations

1877
The Indians were holding one of their old-time donation feasts. . . .
1890
The "potlatch" or donation feast, which is everywhere among the tribes of the littoral of British Columbia most important, does not seem to have occupied a prominent place among the customs of the Shuswaps.