totems

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A pair of blue totems from 2016 are built upon an amalgamation of numerous smaller objects, the process and monochromatic finish indebted to Louise Nevelson.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The resurgent Wallabies, driven on ferociously by Rob Valetini and Will Skelton, their returning totems, shocked the Lions to their very core in surging into that huge lead.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2025

More often than not, the things the gang cooks, markets or consumes are totems of their most earnest, if wildly misdirected, ambitions.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

Today, Vessel USA manufactures some of Architectural Pottery’s original designs as new generations of consumers discover the planters, pots and totems that still stand as visual signatures of midcentury modernism.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

These creatures drifted around without families, totems or tribes, although Knife and Granny seemed to be Portuguese.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer