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donation feast
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.