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Totems and Totem Poles
Totems are symbolic sacred objects or spirit beings. They are often represented as animals or animal like creatures. They are used to represent certain groups of people. Totems are often used to represent kinship within clans or tribes. Sometimes totems are carved into trees in stacks, which are referred to as totem poles. The poles are often thought of as Native American, but are used by cultures all over the world.
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Why do Aboriginal people have totems?
The reason they have totems is because it represents that animal that they lived as in their previous life. Also it shows aspects about that animal that represent them as a human. E.g the eagle is intelligent, wise and graceful ; that could then be expressed in them as a human.
Nobody knows where totem poles originated from, because there is no solid recorded evidence. All we can do is guess when they were first made.
Many different cultures made totem poles, not just Native Americans.
While poles made by Native American tribes are the most famously known, the Mayans, Aztecs, Native Canadians, Native Australians, Maori, ingenious Koreans and ingenious Chinese are also known to have built totem poles.
Many of the poles tell a story, either of a battle, a great feat or a popular legend. Erected for the people of the tribe and visitors to see and remember the events carved into the pole.
They were often also used by Native Australian tribes and Maori tribes to mark their territories, warning rival tribes that they are entering their land, as well as to tell stories like most totem poles.
Aztec and Mayan totem poles were carved from stone, mostly limestone. The poles are carved with images or representations of great battles and representations of Gods.
Ancient ingenious Chinese and Koreans erected small totems to signify their obedience to their Gods and respect to their ancestors.
Anybody who claims the Native Americans were the first to build totem poles are actually incorrect. Truth is, we don't know where they originated from. The empires of ancient China and ancient Korea have existed long before the native Americans settled.
Did jumano Indians make totem poles?
The Jumano tribe lived in Texas, where no Western Red Cedar trees grow.
Since it is these huge Pacific coast trees that were made into totem poles, the Jumano can not have made totem poles, nor did any other tribes in the Americas - just those on the north-west coast of the USA and the west coast of Canada.
Biologically, a zootype is an archetype of the form of all animals, based on conserved molecular homologies.
Symbologically, a zootype is an animal totem, an animal taken as symbolic of deeper abstraction.
How do you get doctor hare's totem on poptropica?
- If you mean the evil rabbit man from 24 carrots island, you need to go to dream #4.
- Do stuff in the other dreams.
- When you get the Diamond Drill, go back to dream #4.
- Equip the diamond drill
- Drill down to the very bottom of the ant hill, all the while, avoiding ALL ants
- When you see Dr. Hare, drill the top 2 squares of the block to his right.
- Collect the totem.
( NOTE: dream #4 is the last dream to complete( if you want more answers, check other answers. I'm just answering you questions with their help.))
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Who carved totem poles and wooden masks?
Many artists nowadays specialise in totem poles. The most well known is probably Richard Hunt, who built the thickest modern totem pole in 1988.
Is it typical to see a totem pole next to a teepee?
No, it is not typical to see a totem pole next to a teepee, as these structures are associated with different Indigenous cultures in North America. Totem poles are primarily linked to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, while teepees are traditionally associated with Plains Native American tribes. Each represents distinct cultural practices, environments, and histories. Placing them together might oversimplify or misrepresent the diverse Indigenous cultures.
Which is not a common subject shown in the totem poles of the pacific northwest?
There is universe full of things not included in totem pole designs - it is far simpler to list the things that commonly were included. These represented family, clan and tribal crests: killer whales, wolves, fish, eagles, humans, thunderbird, beaver, bear and other animals and birds.
What did potlatches and totem poles represent?
Wealth. I was helping my 5th grader find the answer and i found all four answers it offers on the computer. But in the book its wealth. Go for it!
Totem what does it mean to see a wolf in your dream?
A wolf in a dream represents an untamed aspect or instinct from the unconscious. Usually, the dreamer is required to befriend the wolf, and integrated this untamed aspect into the individual's day to day personality.
Why do Cole and peter carve a circle at the end of Cole's totem pole?
I think it's because life is a circle so they carved it because a circle has no beginning or end and so does life, it has no beginning or end "you live you die then something else is born in your place" Edwin said that.
