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In response the hereditary clan chiefs defended their traditional powers through an increased use of noble ancestry names, totems, and crests, all validated by potlatches.
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They were also used as cultural markers, to signify meeting places, burial grounds, ceremonial sites, personal totems or to honour someone.
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It uses totem poles to bar the path of wanderers.
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Persons with the same individual totem prefer to be united in communities.
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The timber is frequently used for house construction, canoe carving, and totem pole construction.
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There are ideological, mystical, emotional, reverential, and genealogical relationships of social groups or specific persons with animals or natural objects, the so-called totems.
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Some say it developed from the totem poles of ancient tribes.
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Though these three major groups stood out, their indigenous clans remained as the point of reference due to their totems.
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But he was opposed to the idea of seeing totems as the basis of religion.
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The cycle of selecting a new totem animal continued for hundreds of years.
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