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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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'rori.M roi.i'.s ha\(' iii\cn of them have only too often i)een avowedly incomplete. Prol)al)ly on some of the i)oles the carved figures illustrate a legend- ary dream or ex))loit of the ancestor of a family or clan. This legend is. then, the property of tlu" family and together with the family dance and song is often heliexcd to ha\e been ohtained hy the ancestor from the toteiu animal. Thus the totem animal has come to l)e regarded as the "hadge" of the family or elan, somewhat as the eagle is the .symbol of the United States. .Vlthough the totem animal does fictitiently figure as the guardian of the family or clan, these animals must he sharply ditferentiated from the guardian spirits of th(> eastern Indians, in so far as the totem animals have come into relation to the family through the an- cestors of the grouj)s and not through any living indi\i(liials l)elonging to the group. Property sentiment has become strongly as- sociated with the poles and the ideas the poles stand for so that no two families can be found claiming identical totem poles. Often the meaning of any given pole has become very complex because marriages and impor- tant family events, such as great potlatches or the killing of slaves in order to show the great wealth of their owner may ha\"e been inserted on the pole in car\ings additional to those representing the traditional legend. It has been found difficult to get totem poles for the Museum. In the first place they
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1911
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  • bookid:americanmuseumjo11amer
  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:109
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
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