totem

Some childhood totem, like a stuffed animal . . . or a sled?

He would never deign me with any sort of acknowledgment, because I was too low on the totem pole.

That is something I look at as a totem of what movies used to be.

Imagine how Vanessa feels, then, looking up from an even lower level on the sexual totem pole.

William, patron of numerous anti-poaching organisations, will be a very visible totem of the cause throughout the week.

They adopt a “totem” or symbol of the family and this is generally some animal, the turtle, bear and wolf being favorites.

Occasionally, in very uncultivated tribes, some family or totem claimed a monopoly of the priesthood.

Their totem was that of the serpent, and their name is not altogether unlike the Tuscarora name of this animal usquauhne.

On the contrary, it is extremely probable that they were an Algonkin totem, which had the exclusive right to the priesthood.

I allude to the institution of the Totem, which has been well known among the Algonquin tribes from the settlement of Canada.