Word: totem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Totem poles, collapsing airplane of colored glass, a kult room, a hall of children's painting, a collection of bicycle parts, window panes, scraps of roofing material, were all part of an exhibition of modern Art in Berlin, free from all limitations of jury. The kult room was the heart of the exhibition. A sign, "Keep off the Tapestry," warned spectators off the Navajo rug on the graveled floor. A square white column, carefully off-center, held up the roof. The rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip...
...Totem and Taboo...
Brown is to have a bronze bear at a cost of $10,000. Already $5,000 has been raised under the slogan: " A bronze bruno for Brown." The statue is being modeled from an exceptionally intelligent beast in the New York Zoo. Yale is threatened with a similar totem of the dog. Princeton is to have a live tiger. But Harvard has never really taken to the donkey. She prefers John Harvard, a square-toed young Puritan of a species which has no living representatives for photography or sculpture...