American AnthropologistVolume 40, Issue 3 p. 349-358 Free Access THE NATURE OF THE POTLATCH H. G. BARNETT, H. G. BARNETT University of California Berkeley, CaliforniaSearch for more papers by this author H. G. BARNETT, H. G. BARNETT University of California Berkeley, CaliforniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: July‐September 1938 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1938.40.3.02a00010Citations: 56AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Bibliography Barbeau, M. The Totem Poles of the Gitskan, Upper Skeena River, B.C. (Bulletin, National Museum of Canada, No. 61, 1929). Boas, F. 1916 Tsimshian Mythology (Thirty-first Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1916). Boas, F. 1921 Ethnology of the Kwakiutl (Thirty-fifth Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1921). Boas, F. 1925 Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. 3, 1925). Boas, F. 1930 The Religion of the Kwakiutl Indians (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. 10, 1930). Collison, W. H. In the Wake of the War Canoe (London, 1915). Curtis, E. 1913 The Coast Salish (in The North American Indian, Vol. 9, Norwood, Mass., 1913). Curtis, E. 1915 The Kwakiutl (in The North American Indian, Vol. 10, Norwood, Mass., 1915). Curtis, E. 1916 The Nootka and Haida (in The North American Indian, Vol. 11, Norwood, Mass., 1916). Dawson, G. M. Notes and Observations on the Kwakiool People of the Northern Part of Vancouver Island and Adjacent Coasts Made During the Summer of 1885, etc. (Proceedings and Transactions, Royal Society of Canada, First Series, Vol. 5, Section 2, pp. 63– 98, 1987). Garfield, Viola. Conflict of Native Custom and English Law Over House Occupation (manuscript). [Tsimshian]. Mayne, R. C. Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island (London, 1862). Murdock, G. P. Rank and Potlatch among the Haida (Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 13, 1936). Niblack, A. P. The Coast Indians of Southern Alaska and Northern British Columbia (Report, United States National Museum for 1888, pp. 225– 386,1890). Sapir, E. A Girl's Puberty Ceremony among the Nootka (Transactions, Royal Society of Canada, Third Series, Vol. 7, Section 2, pp. 67– 80, 1913). Sproat, G. M. Scenes and Studies of Savage Life (London, 1868). Swanton, J. R. 1908 Social Conditions, Beliefs, and Linguistic Relationships of the Tlingit Indians ( Twenty-sixth Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 391– 486, 1908). Swanton, J. R. 1909 Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida (Memoirs, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 8, Part 1, 1905). Swanton, J. R. 1909 (2) Tlingit Myths and Texts (Bulletin, Bureau of American Ethnology, No. 39, 1909). Citing Literature Volume40, Issue3July‐September 1938Pages 349-358 ReferencesRelatedInformation