Totems and Totem Poles

For the native Americans to dance around and also a place to tell stories and to learn about their ancestry.

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The carvings on some totem poles told stories or the Indians put them out to scare off their enemies.

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Some of them do, depending on what legend they are based on. If the legend is about a bird, then the totem pole could have wins on it.

Well its slow but it works. if you put the bee power near the Heathens that are bathing, they will run and hide under the water. you will have a couple of seconds to dismantle the rainbow totem.

Depending on where the totem pole was made, or what culture it came from, totem poles where made from diffrent materials. Indians where most commonly known for wooden totem poles, but mayans totem poles where made from stones, like limestone.

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The Anishinabe (Ojibwe) people did not carve Totem as totem poles are most well know.

Artists did beadwork, birchbark boxes and baskets and dreamcatchers. The clan (totemic system) was used however. Of the original 5 clans there are now more than 21, represented by various symbolic animals such as Wolf, deer, whitefish,loon and bear to name a few.

Totem poles were only found in the Pacific Northwest. They are important to those tribes but not necessarily to any other ones. The Totem pole was carved as a history of the family who carved it or of the family to hired the carver to make them.

None of the north-eastern tribes made totem poles - they are a feature of tribes of the north-west coast.

Yes, and only Northwetern Native American Tribes used or had Totem Poles.

I'm studying Algonquins in school and I know that they did not build totem poles only in the Northwest Coast, the Algonquin is in the Eastern Woodlands.

You need 1000 saves. After this, look at the little bar by your profile picture. There should be a feather. Click on it, and it will give you the option of making a totem or changing your shaman colour.

That depends on the culture or tribe who is doing the carving. The carvings can represent family ancestry, legends, monumenal events.

These totem poles were never objects of worship for the the Native Americans, merely a public record of sorts.

The movie's ending is deliberately ambiguous. After Cobb spins the totem, it continues to spin and wobbles slightly just as the screen cuts to black. The movie does not make clear whether or not the totem will continue to spin indefinitely or fall, leaving it to the viewer to decide whether he is still dreaming or in reality.

For his part, Cobb does not wait to see whether or not the totem topples over, perhaps suggesting that, free of guilt, it makes no difference whether he is in the waking or dreaming world.

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Let's not forget that the spinning top was not originally Cobbs totem, it was his wifes.. He knew the balance of this totem meaning he could use it but could also be tricked by one person, his wife.

I think Cobbs childrens faces were his totem, when he saw their faces he knew it was reality or didn't really care to detirmine the outcome of his believed totem.

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Cobb is never awake in the entire movie. Even the outer layer, with Aurthur, Eemes, Ariadne, Saito, etc. is all part of his infinite dream. He is always on a permanent loop from the beginning of his dream (unknown) to the end (washed up on shore, visits old-man Saito) UNTIL his subconscious finally gets rid of the old architect (the one that messed up the rug in the beginning of the movie) with the new one, Ariadne. Ariadne and Memory-Mal are both Cobb's representation of the real Mal (the one who "died" [but she actually freed herself from the dream cuz she was right]). When Cobb is explaining why he won't stay with Memory-Mal in Limbo, he says "I can't live with all your perfections (Ariadne) and your imperfections (Memory-Mal). So basically he split Mal into good and bad. Also, Fischer and Eemes are Cobb's representation of himself (not so much Eemes as Fischer, though). Cobb has guilt about his father. That is represented in his subconscious by Fischer, who's father was thought to be dissappointed with his son. Eemes said sentences along the lines of "I just want to go home" several times during the movie, which is all Cobb wants: to go home. We never saw Cobb's totem get spun, fall, and completely stop in one scene; there were always split scenes and cutaways. Ariadne's title is "Architect" and it is because Cobb finally got a new architect for his dream loop, he broke free and got into a new part of his everlasting limbo: his kids and home and stuff. If Cobb never got Ariadne, then the ending with Old-Man-Saito would've been the exact same as the first scene and then it would've looped back to the beginning: the middle age Saito in the hotel/palace. But instead of looping back, the Old-Man-Saito scene at the end was different because Cobb finally convinced him to go back.

No, only a few tribes on the west coast of Canada and the north-west coast of the USA made totem poles.

No, that would have been the Native Alaskan Indians.

Yes, with qualifications: Totem poles aren't originally native to the Seminoles -- they're from the Pacific Northwest. However, during the age of Seminole tourist camps (from the 1920s through the 1960s) the ever-enterprising Seminoles realized that white tourists expected all Native Americans to have totem poles. So they started carving them then. Therefore, yes, they did carve totems, but not for the same reasons as the original totem pole carving tribes. For the Seminoles, they were just tourist signage. Some Seminole totem pole examples from old tourist camps now reside in the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, on the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation.

The short answer is: Yes. But the longer answer is: It depends on what you mean by "Totem Poll." Totem Polls, were not used by the Apache, in the same manner as they would have been by more Western tribes. Apache lived primarily in the Texas and Mexico region. Rather than using the Totem Pole as a spirit (i.e. spiritual) entity, the Apache would use them as a story, or a remembrance of an important person, place, or historical event. One who is not raised in the old Traditional Apache Tradition may not necessarily understand what the symbols, carving, and animals truly mean, however.

The "story pole" is misnamed a "totem' pole due to a misunderstanding of its purpose by the settlers when they first encountered them.

A 'totem' is a natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem. Which is a very paternalistic and condescending attitude typical of colonising people towards those they encounter.

Totem poles are important to native Indian bands as they tell a story of the events, people and chiefs of that band. Many totems are very descriptive and quite amazing to see. - The best collection is in the British Columbia Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver.

the key is the "message" in the bottle,,, complete every task given and you receive one part of the Totem Pole,, the bottle returns every week,,, and will give different tasks. There is some minor bugs in this first run,, so hopefully an update is due soon

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Native American tribes in the Northwest part of North America including the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and others build totem poles. They were symbols of clan wealth and prestige.