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    My Totem Pole

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    My Totem Pole Totem Poles are works of art that can express the cultures of Native Americans in Alaska‚ British Columbia‚ and Canada. A totem pole is made from an animal or symbol that is carved into wood that tell stories‚ family stories and history. Totem poles should be kept in a special or a safe place because they have a special meaning to people. Totem poles can be as tall as forty feet high and a couple feet wide. If I had the chance to make my own totem pole‚ I would include these symbols

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    The Wonder of Totem Poles The discovery of totem poles were first recorded by white sailors in coastal Pacific Northwest when European explorers arrived in the region in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. French Europeans‚ upon first visiting the coastal areas of modern day Southeastern Alaska and British Columbia wrote of totems as legitimate‚ if not elegant‚ art forms. They were surprised that hunting/fishing peoples were creating such masterful art. The ornately painted and carved monoliths

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    Totem Poles History

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    Totem poles can show you a lot more history than a few words written on a piece of paper. Many people seek things that represent them or things they can relate to‚ all their lives. Some tribes‚ including the Tlingit tribe and the Haida tribe‚ found the solution to just that. They symbolized traits and events in an incredible way‚ using knifes and logs of wood. Carving faces of animals on the logs connected them to all life on Earth. These logs are called totem poles. This way of showing respect

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    their actions may cause. Richard M. Nixon’s words demonstrate the jurisdiction authority figures have‚ despite the drastic results that surface from their thoughtless actions. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ and Thomas King’s “Totem”‚ one can see how humans’ authoritative decisions lead to the downfall of another. This corruption is seen through

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    Totem Poles

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    People believe that totems originated around the Northwest Pacific Coast where Native Americans had specific rules and traditions about how they were made and used. Although no one knows for sure how long the Native Americans have been living in the North America region‚ it is known that their culture is very much centered around their spiritual beliefs as individual families and clans. Despite the common belief that totem poles represent Native American gods‚ in many tribes they were used to represent

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    Totem and Taboo

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    Cameron Cultural Anthropology 11 November 2013 Totem and Taboo In the book Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud he brings together four essays to explain psycho analysis and its application to social psychology. Freud states that his two sources for Totem and Taboo were William Wundt and Zurich school of psycho-analysis. Wundt’s work centered on non-analytic psychology while Zurich school focused on social Psychology. In his book Freud looks at the life of primitive man and uses psycho-analysis

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    Totem Pole Essay

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    Steven P. Totem pole essay October‚ 9 2017 Ms.schmidt Did you know that i am three animals.I am a badger ‚wolf and a eagle. How i pick my animals are i use my spirit animals.We both made a totem pole and we both used animals in areas.He used the animal that he fand on the island and i used my spirit animals. Fist I am like a badger.We are both aggressive at what we are doing.The badger is fast and slick.when the badger have to get food he has to be fast so the

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    Durkheim argued that the totem is a symbol or material expression that represents the clan or society (Durkheim 1912‚ pg 74). He argued that people use insignificant objects such as animals and vegetables (lizard‚ caterpillar‚ rat‚ plum tree) make them into totems‚ which they collectively worship (Durkheim 1912‚ pg 75). Thus those objects(totems) represent society and distinguish one society from another and when people worship their totems they are worshipping their society (Durkheim 1912‚ pg 75)

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    Tent and Tripod Poles

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    step in setting up a tipi is to tie together three of the poles at the skin’s radius from their bases. One end of this lashing rope is left dangling from the tie-point‚ long enough to reach the base of the poles. These tripod poles are stood upright‚ with their unfastened ends spaced apart on the ground to form a triangle; each pole’s base the skin’s radius from its neighbors. A dozen more long poles are laid onto the three primary poles. Their upper ends rest on the lashing of the first three‚ and

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    Totem Poles Research Paper

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    rainforest environment of the Northwest Coast‚ few examples of poles carved before 1900 exist. Noteworthy examples include those at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria‚ BC and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC in Vancouver‚ BC‚ dating as far back as 1880. And‚ while 18th-century accounts of European explorers along the coast indicate that poles existed prior to 1800‚ they were smaller and few in number. The freestanding poles seen by the first European explorers were likely preceded by

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