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Definition of Totems

Totem
Totem To"tem, n. [Massachusetts Indian wutohtimoin that to which a person or place belongs.] A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan. And they painted on the grave posts Of the graves, yet unforgotten, Each his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. --Longfellow. The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends to the clan and watches over it. --Bagehot.

Meaning of Totems from wikipedia

- Ngarrindjeri were each ****ociated with one or two plant or animal totems, called ngaitji. Totems are sometimes attached to moiety relations (such as in the case...
- Festival totems (sometimes known as doof sticks, rave totems, or rage sticks) are decorative objects, signs, toys, or symbols prominently displa**** on...
- Totems Flare is the fifth studio album by electronic musician Chris Clark and the third one under the moniker Clark. It was released on 13 July 2009 by...
- the Seattle Center Coliseum. The Totems won three WHL Lester Patrick Cup championships in 1959, 1967 and 1968. The Totems were one of the few American-based...
- From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry across the Americas, 1900-2002. ISBN 1-56025-458-0. Wherry, Joseph H. (1964) The Totem Pole...
- trees Festival totem, identification staffs built for music festivals Totems (video game), a video game for the Xbox 360 and PC The Totem, a 1979 novel...
- also further marriage classes, sometimes as many as eight, that group the totems together, and therefore limit a man's choice of partners. He also talks...
- The Totem is a horror novel by David Morrell, first published in 1979. It was Morrell's fifth published book, preceded by three novels and one work of...
- Totem Lake is a two-acre (0.8 ha) lake in the northwest United States, located in Kirkland, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle, at the head of a branch...
- encouraged other members of their tribe to move south and west. The change in totems was more related to these events than the need for intermarriage, which...