totem
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈtoʊtəm/
:
clan totémico
- The largest totem group, to which about three-quarters of Sawiyano affiliate, is subdivided into four to six residence groups.
- totem clans
Examples
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On the interior of these doors, Debassige has carved clan totems as an expression of the community that the church serves.
Academic text (1996) -
I found my answer in Norman Bancroft-Hunt and Werner Forman's People of the Totem.
Fiction book (1999) -
By this totem, your brother swore if we kept the peace, he would protect our land.
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They showed him his animal spirit, his totem.
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Each of the twenty-two family bands possessed a specific animal "totem" through which family members claimed descent or had connections with a family origin story.
Academic text (2018) -
As a child of fifteen years, with neither family nor clan totem mentors, she must face a world of lethal, shifting powers.
Academic text (1997) -
In other cases, an act of sacrilege against the clan's totem was regarded as an insult to the clan itself.
Academic text (2000) -
Such powers, embodied in non-human life forms, may accrue through clan totems, societal memberships, dreams, vision-seeking experiences, or they may be inherited from departed relatives.
Academic text (1997) -
The bear is a powerful totem for our tribe, representing strength and bravery.
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In their ceremony, each member proudly displayed their totem, connecting them to their ancestors.
Idioms
Compounds
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5.8
A tall carved wooden post made by northwest coast native people showing family or legend figures
Surface Forms
Etymology
Totem can also mean the group itself because the same Ojibwe word odoodem named both 'the family' and its symbol. That's why totem can mean the clan that shares a single emblem.