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  2. Totem pole - Wikipedia

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    Totem poles ( Haida: gyáaʼaang) [1] are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a type of Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures. They are usually made from large trees, mostly western red cedar, by First Nations and Indigenous peoples of the ...

  3. Thunderbird (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Thunderbird is a Bolliger and Mabillard Launched Wing Coaster that opened at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana in 2015. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client. The Thunderbird is the cap badge and symbol of the Canadian Forces Military Police since 1968.

  4. Totem - Wikipedia

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    Social and cultural anthropology. v. t. e. A totem (from Ojibwe: ᑑᑌᒼ or ᑑᑌᒻ doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system. [1]

  5. List of Native American deities - Wikipedia

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    Márohu. God of the moon and of rain, rainstorms, and floods; Boinayel's twin brother. Maketaori Guayaba. The god of Coaybay or Coabey, the land of the dead. Opiyel Guabiron. A dog-shaped god that watched over the dead; often associated with the Greek Cerberus .

  6. Cherokee spiritual beliefs - Wikipedia

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    ᏗᎵᏍᏙᏗ "dilsdohdi" [1] the "water spider" is said to have first brought fire to the inhabitants of the earth in the basket on her back. [2]Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...

  7. Northwest Coast art - Wikipedia

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    Totem poles, a type of Northwest Coast art. Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.

  8. Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America

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    A totem pole often was erected outside the longhouse. The style varies greatly, and sometimes it became part of the entrance way. Tribes or ethnic groups along the North American Pacific coast with some sort of longhouse building traditions include the Haida, Tsimshian, Tlingit Makah, Clatsop, Coast Salish and Multnomah.

  9. Conservation and restoration of totem poles - Wikipedia

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    The conservation and restoration of totem poles is a relatively new topic in the field of art conservation. Those who are custodians of totem poles include Native American communities, museums, cultural heritage centers, parks or national parks, camp grounds or those that belong to individuals. Conservation activities include the historical ...

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