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More than that, he won his second consecutive game in the NorPac Showcase, and this one was big: With 52 points, the Totems are the top team from the Pacific division and carried a mighty swagger.
billingsgazette.com 2010
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There's also a set of seven poems called "Totems," which are just what they sound like.
shaken & stirred Gwenda 2003
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There's also a set of seven poems called "Totems," which are just what they sound like.
Archive 2003-02-01 Gwenda 2003
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If you enjoyed this article, please check out LUPA’s newest book, DIY Totemism: Your Personal Guide to Animal Totems, which is ready for pre-order.
Why Did the Chicken Cross My Mind? Food Totems | Disinformation 2008
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They had stopped short of actually erecting Totems around the periphery of the headland, but the effect was the same.
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As their name implies, the Black Totems are the result of inspiration Alpert took from the wood-carved family-ancestral structures, particular to the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
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John Dahlsen, "Buoy Totems", found plastic objects and stainless steel, 2.2 m x 40 cm base ea.
Kimberly Brooks: Artist John Dahlsen: Making Lemonade Out Of Trash 2010
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All that carries over formally from colorful, highly articulated Haida and Tlingit and Kwakiutl totems, however, is a general sense of animistic presence; running their surface articulations and protrusions together into elongated episodes, Alpert clearly thinks of his Totems as single organisms, not compendia.
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In the former you'll find huge exhibitions -- both in scale and quantity -- of work by two artists, Achim Freyer and John Millei; and in the main gallery in Beverly Hills, an installation of towering "Black Totems" by Herb Alpert.
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John Dahlsen, "Thong Totems", Stainless steel, steel and found objects (rubber thongs), 2. 2m (h) x 30cm (w) each (5 in total), 2000.
Kimberly Brooks: Artist John Dahlsen: Making Lemonade Out Of Trash 2010
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