potlatch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A ceremony amongst certain indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest in which gifts are bestowed upon guests and personal property is destroyed in a show of generosity and wealth.

   “That night there was a grand wedding and a potlach; so that for two days to follow there was no fishing done by the village.”

2. isim A communal meal to which guests bring dishes to share; a potluck.

   “If all went according to plan, the bands could harvest tons of meat, fat and animal skins in a single afternoon of collective effort, and either consume these riches in a giant potlatch, or dry, smoke or (in Arctic areas) freeze them for later usage.”

3. fiil To give; especially, to give as a gift during a potlatch ceremony.

   “He was a Chilkaht chief, and it being New Year's day, he had been to General Davis's house and "potlatched" (treated) to a bottle of whiskey.”

4. fiil To carry out or take part in a potlatch ceremony.

   “Natives did not get their wheels into the water until the [salmon] run was nearly over; were all potlaching until the latter part of July.”