What 4 main colors are to make a totem pole?

Answer 1

Colors vary somewhat from Tribe to Tribe, so these colors are in general, the colors symbolize things and represent several different things. WHITE: stands for skies, spacious Heavens, also purity, peace, and death. RED: stands for blood, war, or valor, it is sometimes used as colors on animals and/or parts of said animals. BLUE: most commonly used as the symbol for rivers, waters, lakes, and also skies, it symbolizes sincerity and happiness. YELLOW: a dominating color that symbolizes the sun, light, and happiness. GREEN: represents the earth, hills, trees, and mountains. PURPLE: generally used in the recessed portions of the totem, as for symbols it represents a reverent nature. BLACK: as a rule it stood for power.

Answer 2

White=

• White is used, along with other light colors, as a background and predominating shade.
• As a rule it symbolized the skies and spacious heavens.
• It also stood for purity, peace, and death

Red=

• Generally Red stands for blood, war or valor.
• Sometimes it is used as appears in nature, such as the crest of a red-headed woodpecker, the scarlet tanager or frequently the tongue of an animal.

Blue=

• Blue was most commonly used as the symbol for the rivers, waters, and lakes, also the skies.
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• Blue stands for sincerity and happiness.
• Berries formed a large portion of the natural materials for this color.

Yellow=

• Yellow reflects the symbol of the sun, light and happiness.
• The natural abundant materials made Yellow a very popular and predominating color.
• Clays, tree moss, roots, and tannic barks furnished the natives with dyes.

Green=

• It may easily be realized that Green represents the earth, the hills, the trees, and mountains, so common in all Indian legends.
• Green is made by mixing two primary colors, Yellow and Blue, or it may be made from simple acid action on copper.
• In certain sections of the west and northwest copper was rather abundant.
• Other parts of the country used the juice of grasses

Purple=

• Purple stood for mountains in the distance and general conventionalized signs
• Huckleberries give a very good substance for dyeing, and the Indians commonly used them to make Purple.
• Purple is an excellent color for recessed portions of the carving and for symbols of a reverent nature.

Black=

• As a rule, Black stood for power
• Mud from sulphur springs and other earth deposits made Black available to the Indian.

Answer 3

Historically, colours used on totem poles were fairly limited due to native pigments being used. They were often the sacred colours: black, red and white. The link below takes you to a photograph of a traditional totem pole using these colours.

In more modern times the native tribes have access to a much wider range of colours from the local hardware store, so modern poles have gaudy and not-so-traditional colours.

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Answer 4

the colors on a totem pole can be any color that matches what the totem pole is meaning...

Answer 5

Blue, red, green, black and brown are mostly used on totem poles

Answer 6

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