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Show Potlatch.- Potlatch Is a custom of distributing gifts practiced by the KawiutI, Chim-syan Chim-syan and other tribes of the northwest north-west coast. The principal actor in the ceremony is some member of the tribe who has spent year9 in accumulating treasures of all kinds, which he gives arwny In ono grand display of generosity. generosi-ty. All the tribesmen of tho villages for miles around attend the ceromony. Honor binds the recipients of tho gifts, howover, to such an extent that they become indebted to the giver to double tho amount of the present, so that tho potlatch is, Instead of an extravagance, t wine investment against future need. |