. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 22.—Feast seats of the Moachat. 1-4, First four chiefs (same order of rank as in potlatches); y, other chiefs (not in fixed order); x, old (retired) chiefs (not in fixed order); w, war chiefs; z, commoners. were potlatching the Kyuquot, only the chiefs of the 14 local groups (who held the first 14 seats) would be seated; all the rest would sit anywhere along the side of the house. For feasts the arrangement differed again. The first 4, 6, or 10 chiefs were seated, occupying, usually, the same relative positions as in potlatches. Ordinarily no more than 10 were sea
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 22.—Feast seats of the Moachat. 1-4, First four chiefs (same order of rank as in potlatches); y, other chiefs (not in fixed order); x, old (retired) chiefs (not in fixed order); w, war chiefs; z, commoners. were potlatching the Kyuquot, only the chiefs of the 14 local groups (who held the first 14 seats) would be seated; all the rest would sit anywhere along the side of the house. For feasts the arrangement differed again. The first 4, 6, or 10 chiefs were seated, occupying, usually, the same relative positions as in potlatches. Ordinarily no more than 10 were seated. The war chiefs and sometimes the speakers would be placed in a double row down the center of the house, beginning at the rear wall. Sometimes retired chiefs would be placed here also. The people without seats sat along the walls, men on the right, women on the left. If no women were present, middle-class men might be placed on the right, commoners on the left. The precise arrange- ment depended on the number of guests, which in turn depended on the amount of food to be Figure 23.—Potlatch seats of confederated Muchalat groups, end of nineteenth century. 1, match (hohtin) chief; 2, match (maLickowatakaml) chief; 3, a'aminqas (ta'qa'Lis) chief; 4, match (Liq t takamJ) chief (moya group); 5, match (maiyalkwo'ptakaml) chief (hpti); 6, ia'aminqas (ta'qa'Lis) chief, second in the house (cf. No. 3); 7, match (maltsa'a) chief (remnants of moya tribe ?); 8, match (qomitsitas) chief (remnants of hpti tribe ?).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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