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unusual facts about Totem


Long Day's Journey

The electro-kinetic cat burglar-for-hire, Gwen Raiden, returns and reluctantly helps Angel and the group after they discover that the Beast is searching for five mystical Totems in order to block out sunlight from Los Angeles so that all demons and vampires can roam freely.


Chief White Eagle

Chief White Eagle also hosted Totem Club on WTTW during the 1960s, including a segment called "Indian Stories with Chief White Eagle".

Culture of the Tlingit

In a move traditional against those with unpaid debts, a totem pole was erected that would shame the Americans for not having paid back the Tlingits for their loss, and at its top for all to see was a very carefully executed carving of Abraham Lincoln, whom the Tlingits were told was the person responsible for freeing the slaves.

Dave Kerman

In 2002 Kerman and Koomran started a new band in Israel called Ahvak (Hebrew for "Dust") in a similar vein to U Totem and Thinking Plague.

Diesing

Freda Diesing (1925–2002), a female carver of Northwest Coast totem poles

East Montlake Park

A plaque at the bottom of the totem pole states that it was carved in 1937 by John Dewey Wallace, a Haida chief, in Waterfall, Alaska.

Edward L. Keithahn

He became interested in totem poles at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, in 1909 and later traveled to southeast Alaska and eventually lived there working "in the Indian service," as he put it (meaning perhaps employment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs), living mainly among the Tlingit and Haida people.

Frank Espinosa

Espinosa’s art can also be seen in a two-part back-up feature starring the Living Totem by writer Zeb Wells in Doc Samson (Marvel Comics) #4–5 (April–May 2006).

Hula-La-La

In one of the huts, the Three Stooges try to get their hands on a box of surplus World War II hand grenades guarded by a living Kali type four-armed totem idol (Lei Aloha).

Jenny Greenteeth

Jenny Green Teeth (note the words are separated) is the title character in a book of short stories, Jenny Green Teeth and Other Short Stories (Palmerston North: Totem Press, 2003. ISBN 0-9582446-3-4), by New Zealand-born English writer and Scholar Joel Hayward.

Jenny Green Teeth is also the main subject of a poem, "Welsh Maiden," by Joel Hayward in his collection, Lifeblood: A Book of Poems (Palmerston North: Totem Press, 2003. ISBN 0-9582446-1-8).

Kati Rekai

Puppet shows based on Mickey, Taggy, Puppo and Cica: "The Great Totem Pole Caper", "The Tale of Tutenkhamen" and "The Boy Who Forgot".

Lincon Muteta

A native of the Highfield area of Harare, Muteta is the youngest of four in a family which originates from Mutoko; his totem is "Soko Murehwa", or the monkey.

Little Thurrock

Projects have included Royal Philharmonic Orchestra workshops, the creation of a totem pole with stoneware faces with Hazle Ceramics, The National Gallery Take one Picture projects, Batik wall hangings with textile artist Louise Knight and the construction of a living willow dome.

Marine Exchange of Alaska

Original Alaskan marine industry organizations who played a role in the establishment of the organization include: Alaska Marine Highway, BP Oil Shipping, Crowley Maritime Corporation, Totem Ocean Trailer, Horizon Lines, Polar Tankers, Southwest Alaska Pilots Association, Southeast Alaska Pilots Association, the Alaska Marine Pilots and Pacific Seafood Processors Association.

Mitchell Rales

The cobblestone entry court, anchored by another Richard Serra piece, has views of the pond, the residence and a commissioned Ellsworth Kelly totem sculpture which acts as the site's fulcrum.

Peter Macnair

To the Totem Forests: Emily Carr and Contemporaries Interpret Coastal Villages (1999)

Sally Ann Freedman

They played at popular ballrooms of the day including the Totem Pole Ballroom in Norumbega Park, Auburndale; Commodore Ballroom in Lowell, Massachusetts; Carousel Ballroom in Manchester, New Hampshire; Rockingham Ballroom in Newmarket, New Hampshire; Canobie Lake Ballroom in Salem, New Hampshire; and Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.

Scouting in Colorado

The lodge totem is a coney (Pika), and the name translates to "Dwellers on the Mountain Tops" in the Kiowa language.

The Ubyssey

In 1974, a report, quoting the Pope, that Patty Hearst had given a speech to students in the Totem Park cafeteria prompted the arrival on campus of a KOMO-TV news team from Seattle which had apparently taken it seriously.

Totem pole

Garfield, Viola E., and Forrest, Linn A. (1961) The Wolf and the Raven: Totem Poles of Southeastern Alaska. Revised edition.

Totem tennis

A Guinness World Record attempt for the most people playing Totem Tennis simultaneously occurred on the December 3, 2006 at Lake Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

Totemism

Among the Wiradjuri, an Aboriginal people who traditionally lived in New South Wales, Australia, totem clans are divided among two subgroups and corresponding matrilineal moieties.


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