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totem pole
While many think of the Totem Pole as a symbol of native people & their culture, its production was limited to six tribes in British Columbia and southeastern Alaska.
Tribes which carved Totem Poles:
bullet Bella Coola
bullet Haida
bullet Kwakiutl
bullet Tlingit
bullet Tsimshian
bullet West Coast
Pole carving flourished in the 19th century, to tell stories or commemorate historical events. Each tribe had its own distinctive style. The figures carved weren't gods or demons, but symbolic, like the figures in European Heraldry. Totem Poles were not worshipped, but the stories they told often inspired respect or veneration.
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