totem-pole

We Californians are at the top of the totem-pole when it comes to suffering through this economical crisis, but we are not so stupid as to fall for quick fixes or political pandering.

McCain resurrects call for gas tax holiday 2008

I scrunch through bracken to stand before the totem-pole trunk.

Country diary: Bedfordshire 2010

About 20 years ago, Hewett, a graduate student at the time, bought a totem-pole keychain while visiting a collaborator in Vancouver.

Belated Holiday Symmetree JoAnne 2007

Thought to have originated in prehistoric Alaska and British Columbia as a way to represent family history, totem-pole carving flourished in the early nineteenth century after the introduction of metal tools.

Museums: Icon of the Northwest 2003

The next step on the difficult path chosen by Immortal Spirits is therefore to open up the powerful Central Channel and awaken the eight psychic energy centers that form a sort of cosmic totem-pole from perineum to crown.

The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989

Mile upon mile the ravening hemisphere of flame had expanded over the level farmlands, and from its heart had risen the twisting totem-pole that had haunted the minds of men for so long, and to such little purpose.

Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

Mile upon mile the ravening hemisphere of flame had expanded over the level farmlands, and from its heart had risen the twisting totem-pole that had haunted the minds of men for so long, and to such little purpose.

Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

On the altar itself was a feathered serpent, a figure carved in wood with protruding tongue and eyes made of pawa shell, a Wagnerian sort of god, a miniature totem-pole, and various other bits of heathen bric-a-brac, as ill-assorted as a bunch of plenipotentaries at Geneva.

Death in Ecstasy Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1936

There was no flag, and no flag-pole in that nameless health-resort, so the sword, without its scabbard, was doing duty, point downward in the ground, as a totem-pole of Empire.

Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

Dirty Dan O'Leary had volunteered, had been mesmerized after a struggle, and, upon being told that he was Dick Whittington's cat, had proceeded to cut some feline capers that would have tickled the sensibilities of a totem-pole.

Kindred of the Dust 1918