Moveable Feasts: Chronicles of "Potlatching" among the Tsimshian, 1860s-1900s

• Published in: Ethnohistory
• Main Author: Brock, Peggy
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Duke University Press 2012
• Subjects: Articles; Fort Simpson; Pacific; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://ethnohistory.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/59/2/387; https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1536921

This article considers Tsimshian feasting activities from the 1860s to the turn of the century. It is informed by the remarkable diary of a Tsimshian, Arthur Wellington Clah. It takes up the analysis where Robert Grumet left it in his article in Ethnohistory in 1975. Clah's day-by-day account s...