NOUN
- a tribal emblem consisting of a pillar carved and painted with totemic figures; erected by Indian tribes of the northwest Pacific coast
How To Use totem pole In A Sentence
- The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
- People who buy stock in these companies under American law wind up at the bottom of the totem pole in the bankruptcy proceeding.
- With Horace the body of criticism is a veritable totem pole whose foundation goes back to ancient times.
- Designer Ryan Frank sent us his latest creation, the Isabella stool is a totem pole style stacking stool made from straw and wool. The Isabella Stool by Ryan Frank
- When one pagan group was ordered to dismantle a totem pole over which libations were poured, they simply placed a bust of Lenin on top and continued as before.
- Here I was, the last guy on the totem pole.
- The library has stone totem poles on either side of the entrance, and the banks are embellished with sculpted friezes of bush planes, wheat sheafs, geese and wildflowers.
- With Horace the body of criticism is a veritable totem pole whose foundation goes back to ancient times.
- Nathan Jackson is a master carver who has exhibited his works - totem poles, masks, bentwood boxes and house fronts - in New York, London, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Seattle.
- You have to get rid of kitschy bird bath and your bear totem pole that you got in college that the neighbors hate and pull out that edger. Five Unique Ways to Sell Your Home | myFiveBest