"Copyright à by McClelland and Stewart Limited ... First University of Washington Press edition, 1967."--Verso of title page. Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and bibliographical footnotes.

The Indian tribes of the North Pacific Coast / Franz Boas -- Primary forms of material culture : living and eating / John R. Jewitt -- Boatmanship / Gilbert Malcolm Sproat -- Nootka whaling / Philip Drucker -- The social organization of the West Coast tribes / Edward Sapir -- Social organization of the Haida / John R. Swanton -- The ancestral family of the Bella Coola / T.F. McIlwraith -- The potlatch / Franz Boas -- The nature of the potlatch / H.G. Barnett -- Fighting with property / Helen Codere -- Some variations on the potlatch / Philip Drucker -- Black market prerogatives among the Northern Kwakiutl / Ronald L. Olson -- Git-la'n chief's potlatch / Viola Garfield -- Daniel Cranmer's potlatch / Helen Codere -- Lagius gives me a copper / Clellan S. Ford -- Rank, wealth, and kinship in Northwest Coast society / Philip Drucker -- Kwakiutl society : rank without class / Helen Codere -- Boas and the neglect of commoners; Critique / Verne F. Ray ; Comment / Robert H. Lowie ; Rejoinder / Verne F. Ray -- Private knowledge, morality, and social classes among the Coast Salish / Wayne Suttles -- The winter ceremonial / Franz Boas -- Charlie Nowell recalls the winter ceremonies / Clellan S. Ford -- Crime and punishment in Tlingit society / Kalervo Oberg -- The patterns of culture / Philip Drucker -- The amiable side of Kwakiutl life : the potlatch and the play potlatch / Helen Codere -- The amiable side of [Ruth Benedict's] Patterns of culture / Victor Barnouw. Selected papers dealing with problems arising out of considerations of the potlatch and of the class and ranking system among the coastal Indians living north of Washington state: the Coast Salish, the Nootka, the Kwakiutl, the Bella Coola, the Tsimshian, the Haida and the Tlingit. Cf. Introduction, p. [vii].