potlatch hall

Pacific Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a communal hall for holding potlatches (def. 2).

Quotations

1926

The trial will be held in the old potlatch hall.

1954

Perhaps all had plank houses . . . but Chowitsut also had a "potlatch house" at the Portage. . . .

1966

There were signs of life . . . in the potlatch house. . . .