"iktas box"

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Sure do.  Our family has done it for many years.  But the description
of "Iktas Box" is new to me.  These boxes come UPS and are always
labeled, "Harry and David, Medford, Oregon."  ;->

On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 19:11:37 -0800, David Robertson
<drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG> wrote:

>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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