Such is the story told by that weird painting, which could be seen some years ago adorning the dark walls of the great potlatch house of Shewish, Seshaht chief on Ho-moh-ah but better known as Village Island, Barkley Sound.
The potlatch was evidently in the main a social gathering of the Yukon Indians, with the Tanana natives as visitors.
Rumors of this potlatch were heard before, but this was the first definite information.
These behave kindly and tell me of a potlatch to be held at Tanana "after some days," where they will visit.
The Indians have a big potlatch at the mission, 2 miles above.
The feasting and the giving may last for a week; and when the affair is over the guests go their several ways, leaving the giver of the potlatch a poor man.
When the next potlatch takes place, however, he recovers a portion of his wealth, and after a few more have been given, he is better off than ever.
Nesika sing kopa saghalie illahie, Halo chako sick tumtum nesika, Nesika praise nesika Saghalie Papa, Yahka potlatch konaway-iktah kopa nesika 43 THERE IS A HAPPY LAND.
In a moment he was back in Silvertip's top bunk the night of the Potlatch dance.
Senott, proud in her Potlatch finery, came close and gazed with friendly eyes at the white visitors.
The wailing gradually gave way to the Potlatch songs in honor of the deceased--songs of curious rhythm and halting cadences; songs with a haunting plaintiveness that floated high above the throbbing of the drums.
Never during the three days of the Potlatch did those drumbeats cease.
And after the Potlatch we'll have a little peace in the country, I hope.
The never-ceasing beat of the Potlatch drums made a throbbing, low accompaniment to their guttural tones and laughter.
Ever since the night of the Potlatch dance which he had been too intoxicated to attend, something vague but insistent at the back of his consciousness strove to make itself remembered.
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.
They had come back to their room at the post the night of the Potlatch dance.
She potlatch you," explained Senott, supplementing her words with eloquent eyes and hands.
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.
For the first time in his life he was doing some serious thinking; and ever since the Potlatch he had been seeing himself in no complimentary light.
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.
Ted's share of the potlatch was a beautiful blanket of Tanana's weaving, and he was delighted beyond measure.
A potlatch is given, and food from the feast is put in the fire for the dead person.
One youngster, wearing the black leather jacket and crash-helmet of a Potlatch Party, ran from the fireworks warehouse with a thermite grenade.
The high-school kids come home from their Potlatch Parties .
He was double-busy, in fact; planning the biggest Potlatch Day in twenty years at the same time he started the wheels of his project to make birthdays Gratuity Days for every consumer in his District.
But nowadays, sir, thosePotlatch Parties contribute to the general prosperity," Winfree explained.
Finally, it was two days before Xmas, Potlatch Day Minus One.
I'd rather spend the rest of my BSG years as a corporal, a simple Potlatch Observer in a downstate village, than never to have embarked on this campaign.
We'll have our Potlatch Pyre right here and now, burn them right off instead of waiting a year.
Potlatch is a wonderful day for children, a glorious introduction to the science of economics.
And so, because there was weight to his words, he counselled peace; and he journeyed to every potlatch and feast and tribal gathering that he might counsel peace.
And then there were men from far-distant tribes, great travellers and seekers who had heard of the potlatch of Ligoun.
Yet honor was mine at the potlatch of Niblack, on the Skoot, and the memory of it, and the memory of Ligoun, be dear to me.
It was a feast great almost as thepotlatch of Ligoun.
I was loath to let him go until we were actually at the road-house described, but he wanted to go back to the lake for the potlatch then preparing, and said that two days' delay would bar him from the best of the festivities.
An old native whom we met on his way to the potlatch later in the day spread out his hands with a look of despair and cried: "Good trail all lose'm!
No one can be sure of closing his bargain, until the terms are duly arranged, the potlatch given, and the horse delivered.
But he said when the white man died his children make a potlatch of what he left behind him; and, being dead he could not see in their countenances that light arising from what they had received from him.
A potlatch is the giving-away of all of our earthly possessions without any hope or expectation of any return, either in kind or value.
Potlatch good thy will upon earth as in the above.
She glanced up a long ladder of rods or poles which were hung with Potlatch masks--fearful and merciless visages, fit to cover the faces of crime.
That tune recalled her early German home, the Rhine, her good father and mother, and the scenes of the great Indian Potlatch on the Columbia.
Appleton and Company [Illustration: Gretchen at the Potlatch Feast.
A potlatch among the tribes of the Northwest means a feast at which some wealthy Indian gives away to his own people or to a friendly tribe all that he has.
The hints of the evil intention of the Potlatch troubled him, but his faith in the old chief and the influence of his own integrity did not falter.
The Indians were demanding that the great fall Potlatch should end with this ominous dance of fire and besmearings of blood.
Just as the red disk of the sun sunk down behind this stupendous scenery, a low, guttural sound was uttered by Potlatch Hero, an old Indian brave, and it passed along the line of the shadowy braves.
At the great Potlatch he would not only give away his private goods, but would take leave of the chieftainship which he had held for half a century.
It was summer, and there was to be a great Indian Potlatch feast under the autumn moon.
The very mention of thePotlatch filled her with recent terror.
Will you--will you play--play that tin-tin at Potlatch under the big moon?
The Potlatchwas sentiment, and the Sun-dance was an actual poem.
There are many Injuns in the timber now, and they all cast evil looks at me whenever I meet them, and these things hint that they are goin' to capture me at the Potlatch and carry me away.
The potlatch is given at the full of the moon; the chief's clan and totem decline all gifts; it is not in good form for any member thereof to accept the slightest gift.
There was an immense wooden potlatch dish that held food for one hundred people.
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 above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potlatch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
