"iktas box"

[Nadja Adolf]

Yep. My family did the same. Ours were usually boxes
of apples,peaches, smoked salmon, and other foodstuff
of the "fun category" for putting out as snacks and for
guests. My mom's family lived in the Seattle
area and in the Pasco area.

Nawitka. Nay tillikum munk ukuk. Nesayka iskum apples, peaches,
piah pish, pe muckamuck itkas khapa munk hee hee muckamuck pe
munk muckamuck khapa tillikums chaku say haus.

BTW - When and where is the next Cinuk Lu?lu?

Kunsih kimtah Cinuk Lu?lu?

nadja


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Robertson [mailto:drobert at tincan.tincan.org]
> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 1999 7:12 PM
> To: CHINOOK at listserv.linguistlist.org
> Subject: "iktas box"
>
>
> LhaXayEm!  Qhata mEsayka?
>
> Yesterday evening, a friend of mine was telling about how some older
> relatives of hers (a great-aunt and -uncle, I think) gave
> Christmas gifts
> every year of "iktas boxes".  An "iktas box" was what the
> rest of us call
> a care package, I think.  :-)  It was a large wooden crate filled with
> sausages, cheeses, trinkets and so forth.  These folks were from Walla
> Walla, Washington, and were White.
>
> I have the strangest feeling that I've heard the phrase "iktas box"
> elsewhere.  Do any of you know of such a custom and phrase in past
> Northwestern traditions?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
>
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