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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.
Look for the lush, dramatic Big Raven (1928) and Forest, British Columbia (1932), in which the trees have the sculptural quality of totem poles.
Carpentry is the most valued of Kwakiutl skills, and is spectacularly displayed in their totem poles.
Totem's first line of its own--the Surface Collection by Lloyd Schwan--is both playful and versatile, consisting of building-blocklike tables, credenzas, and cabinets with interchangeable parts and colors, depending on whether the pieces are going in an office or a kid's room.
And most polls show that the American public ranks lower taxes low on the totem pole of priorities for the government.