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Example sentences for: totem

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Carpentry is the most valued of Kwakiutl skills, and is spectacularly displayed in their totem poles.
A splendid group of Haida and Kwakiutl totem poles nearby illustrate the province’s other important cultural influence.
A totem pole marks the site where Captain Vancouver met with members of the Squamish tribe.
If he is he is one of shit"--shit being, in Artaud's view, of human essence and the sole alternative to the void), he was beginning to draw complex, heavily laden constructions that look like architecture made from heads--in the very last drawing they are stacked, as in so many totem poles.
For the men who are making these new choices, I don't believe there is a masculinity crisis but rather a liberation from an identity constrained by the "I am what I do" and the "I am my status on the totem pole" mentality that dominated the emotional lives of most men in the 20 th century.