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  2. Totem pole - Wikipedia

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    Totem poles and houses at ʼKsan, near Hazelton, British Columbia.. Totem poles serve as important illustrations of family lineage and the cultural heritage of the Indigenous peoples in the islands and coastal areas of North America's Pacific Northwest, especially British Columbia, Canada, and coastal areas of Washington and southeastern Alaska in the United States.

  3. Northwest Coast art - Wikipedia

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    Totem poles, a type of Northwest Coast art. Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.

  4. Portal:Canada/Symbols - Wikipedia

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    Other prominent symbols include the national motto, A Mari Usque Ad Mare (From Sea to Sea), the sports of hockey and lacrosse, the beaver, Canada goose, Canadian horse, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Rockies, the Canadian parliamentary complex, the Canadarm, and, more recently, the Canadianization of totem poles and Inuksuks ...

  5. Alaska Native art - Wikipedia

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    Detail of a Tlingit totem pole, Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska Native cultures are rich and diverse, and their art forms are representations of their history, skills, tradition, adaptation, and nearly twenty thousand years of continuous life in some of the most remote places on earth.

  6. Kwakwakaʼwakw art - Wikipedia

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    The sequence of characters and symbols sculpted into a totem pole is indicative of past family events, ancestors, myths, and heraldic crests, with the bottom figure usually being the most prominent. [23] The interpretation of the symbols is retold in a semi-legendary form when the pole is first dedicated to a certain house after completion.

  7. Festival totem - Wikipedia

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    A flower totem in front of a sign totem at Electric Forest. Festival totems (sometimes known as doof sticks, rave totems, or rage sticks) are decorative objects, signs, toys, or symbols prominently displayed on poles by attendees at various music festivals and cultural events worldwide. Often seen in the crowds and campsites at large outdoor ...

  8. Nisga'a and Haida Crest Poles of the Royal Ontario Museum

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    The Pole of Sag̱aw̓een was carved by Oyee to commemorate Chief Sag̱aw̓een from the Eagle tribe (Gitlaxluuks clan). At 81 feet (25 m) tall, this pole is the tallest pole carved on the Nass River. It stood in the village of Gitiks alongside two other Eagle poles: first, the Eagle's Nest Pole, and later in 1885, joined by the Halibut Pole of Laay.

  9. File:Native Alaskan Totem Pole.JPG - Wikipedia

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