"iktas box"

[peter webster]

Argh! I used to work there.

At 1:16 PM -0800 1/10/0, Jeffrey Kopp wrote:
>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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peter