Sentence example with the word 'totem'

totem

allegory, caste, conventional symbol, familiar spirit, guardian angel, lares and penates, love knot, penates, social class, symbolic system

Definition n. a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object

Last update: August 10, 2015


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At that age, he was relatively low on the immortal totem pole, though his obvious wealth indicated he had powerful connections somewhere.   [Please select]

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He thinks that three neatly painted totem poles would add to the attractiveness of our Indian camps.   [Please select]

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Each separate group has its totem, its general rules with reference to the marriage relation, to hunting and fishing, to shelter and protection.   [Please select]

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When the banner was presented to the winners their totem had been ingeniously fashioned upon its shimmering folds.   [Please select]

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All the Indian families had totem-poles and kept them set up before the doors of their houses.   [Please select]

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The idea of a totem-pole is something like a door-plate or a visiting card.   [Please select]

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The totem pole raised its gaunt head to greet them, still decorated with the history of their year in the woods together.   [Please select]

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With these they constructed houses whose carved totem poles and graceful facades gave promise of an architecture of great beauty.   [Please select]

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Each Haida house ordinarily had a single carved totem pole in the middle of the gable end which faced toward the beach.   [Please select]

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Totem poles of cedar, carved with the heads of animals emblematic of family clans, told Mackenzie that he was nearing the coast tribes.   [Please select]

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All around the lodge were rush mats, on which they slept, and near the door was a carved totem pole.   [Please select]

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