Word: totemism
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...prow of the Nahlin is an Indian totem pole base from which sprouts as a figurehead an Indian chief with.flowing headdress, peering ahead. On final orders from the Admiralty, the Nahlin nosed this week into the minute Balkan port of Sibenik, between Zara and Split, there picked up King Edward & Friends...
...eleven foot totem pole effigy of Atlao, nicknamed "King Siwash," nineteenth century chief of the Ahousat Indian Tribe, located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, was placed on public view Saturday in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University...
...totem pole was intended primarily as a support for the cross beams of the tribe's Big House. This building fell down in 1910, and the statue was left undisturbed until noted by Mr. Arnold. At that time the Indians refused to part with the effigy, but later, according to the museum plague, a missionary persuaded the tribe to hurl the huge pole into the sea. It was subsequently washed as here on Vancouver Island, where Mr. Arnold found it and had it shipped to Maine...
...principal outside jobs filled were those of waiters, window-washers, snow shovelers, clerks, tutors, entertainers, and chore workers. Within the University, much work has been done in the various buildings, in the way of repairs and new construction. In the Peabody Museum at present, a student is repairing a totem pole, others are mending ancient skeletons, and cementing excavated fragments of pottery...
...Prof. William Gardner Hale, first director of the American Academy in Rome, he decorated many mansions in Europe and the U. S. in true fresco in the early Italian manner, was best known for his murals in Illinois Merchants' Trust Co., Manhattan Cloud Club. He also carved totem poles...