potlach

Then he mingled with the men and maidens, and that night gave a potlach.

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.

The community of Palouse, Washington, is located in Whitman County, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Potlach, Idaho.

I'd sooner be flat-bellied of hunger and be your woman, Tommy, than have a potlach every day and be Chief George's klooch.'

I sat by the full pots of the potlach feast, and raised my voice in song, and danced to the chanting of the men and maidens and the booming of the walrus drums.

Children were running about in the open, dragging dry wood to the scene of the potlach, a babble of women's voices was growing in intensity, the young men were consulting in sullen groups, while from the Shaman's lodge rose the eerie sounds of an incantation.

The following April, First City persuaded Arvin Industries Inc. to buy Scovill's automotive parts business for $39.2 million, but only after the Belzbergs - who in previous takeover attempts had extracted greenmail payments from such concerns as Potlach, Ashland and Gulf - accumulated a 4.9 percent stake in Arvin.