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What did the totem pole represent?
A totem pole represents the animals of the tribe unless I am mistaken.
Who is the totem pole is important to?
Totem poles are important beacause it usaly represent the animals indians hunted for food or it was the spitite of animals.The o
What does the coast salish totem pole represent?
Totem poles do not symbolize 'gods' and they were not worshiped. Totem poles often represent one's crest, animals, a particular clan story, or they were a memorial pole for a deceased person. Totem poles also show social rank and social affiliation.
What do totems on totem poles represent?
These poles are more correctly known as "story poles" and were personal to the carver and their family. The creatures represented related to the life of the carver and his beliefs. ------ While totem poles do tell stories, they also represent a clan's crest, social rank, and affiliation. Totem poles were also carved to memorialize a deceased person. Animals carved on totem poles may represent the carver's crest, clan, or figures in a clan's story. It is not only animals or mythical creatures carved on totem poles, sometimes people and other objects are carved on them also. Depending on the story, it often does not personally belong to the carver, but rather to the clan he belongs to. If anything the totem poles were personal to the carver and his clan as opposed to just the carver and his family.
What do the wings on a totem pole represent?
Courage
Why did the Aztecs build totem poles?
The Aztecs built totem poles to represent peace and joy
Do the designs on totem poles represent culture?
Yes
What do human images on totem poles represent?
Gods
What is carved into a totem pole?
On totem poles there is spirts of there animals that are powerful to native Americans.
Why are there animals on totem poles?
The animals that are included in the Pacific Northwestern totem poles are animals that tell a story. If the story is about a bear, the bear will be on the bottom of the totem pole. The Native Americans of this area also used hawks, eagles, wolves, other birds, and other animals. A totem pole is read from bottom to top.
Why are totem poles famous?
because they were used by Indians to represent a familly
What does a totem represent?
A totem pole is carved for an individual or for a family. Each animal or person carved on the pole is there to remind the pole's owner about a story or an event. A totem pole is kind of a status symbol.
