During potlatch, copper pieces would be brought out, and bids were placed on them by rival chiefs.

He soon escaped and took refuge with a rival native chief, who lived close to the main coast on the Chesapeake Bay.

The two rival chiefs never met again, as Kahekili II died in mid-1794.

Arminius would be later assassinated on the orders of rival Germanic chiefs.

He shores up his position by killing a rival chief and takes personal oversight of the effort to obtain the rubies.

Through use of western weaponry, native rulers on both islands were able to consolidate their power and defeat rival chiefs.

Five years later, Arminius was killed on the orders of rival Germanic chiefs.

Now you didn't have to spend a whole day in an aircraft to go and see a rival chief of state--and then under controlled circumstances.

In 481 the Tian chief killed a puppet duke, most of the ruler's family and a number of rival chiefs.

The increase in statue size with time suggests competition between rival chiefs commissioning the statues to outdo each other.