The Importance of Totem
Poles
by N.G.
Long ago people made up an idea to make something to tell
stories, and do many other things with. The idea was that a totem pole could do
these things. They made them up of different shapes and sizes and all different
colors, depending on the story or the reason for making the totem pole. Making
a totem pole is not a must it’s a choice.
You did not have to make totem poles, but
if you chose to they were a lot of work. Totem poles are were used to tell
stories, to honor the deceased members of a clan, and many more things. They
are usually made from a soft smooth tree called a cedar that usually has no bad
knots in them. They usually take up to moths, days, years depending on design,
color, and height. All this stuff about totem poles is very important to a lot
of native people, and is a lot of hard work so they usually have many people
work on a totem pole.
How Totem Poles are
Made
By C.M.
A totem pole is a cedar pole that
represents shame or happiness. They were highly respected and “supernatural”.
Tribes brought this art to Washington. They loved this idea and they used it
quickly.
To make a totem pole they split cedar to
the desired length and hollowed it out for colors. Red came from hematite,
green from copper ore, and black from graphite. The chief almost always commissioned
totem pole. If you weren’t a chief and you commissioned a pole you were of
great wealth. That is how a totem pole was made.
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