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potlatching ((adj.)) Pacific Coast 
adj. of or having to do with potlatches (def. 2a).
See also: potlatch ((n.)) (def. 2a)
- 1961 [In January, 1915]Charles Nowell, a Kwakiutl of Alert Bay, sent a list of names and each copper to Mr. Clements, a member of the House of Commons, with the symbolic potlatching value of each sheet of copper metal indicated, the coppers varying in value as do banknotes.
- 1961 Philip Drucker . . . is of the opinion that in the great dramatic productions which incorporated the tamanawas (medicine dance) and the potlatching activity, the "corpse" was a simulation. . . .
- 1961 [In January, 1915]Charles Nowell, a Kwakiutl of Alert Bay, sent a list of names and each copper to Mr. Clements, a member of the House of Commons, with the symbolic potlatching value of each sheet of copper metal indicated, the coppers varying in value as do banknotes.