Totem is valid Scrabble Word

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5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for TOTEM in dictionary:

NOUN:

the symbol of a family, clan or tribe
a natural object or animal that is believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and that is adopted by it as an emblem.
tribal badge or emblem
A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.
a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a natural object serving as the emblem of a family or clan

Words related to TOTEM

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Words that contain TOTEM

totems8 totemic11 totemism12 totemist10 totemite10 totemisms13 totemists11 totemites11 totemistic14 totemically18

How to use TOTEM in a sentence

The Indian camp, with its bark wigwams and tall totem pole, had become a great place of resort with certain of the officers.
As we belong to the Raven, or Bear, or Eagle clan, we have the carved poles to show our rank, but the totem of the dead is quite different.
He carve her totem at the top of the pole, then his totem and those of the family are carved below.
Before he becomes a man he must go alone into the forest to fast, and there he chooses his totem, and he is brother to that animal all his life, and may not kill it.
The tamanous, or totem, types himself as a salmon, a beaver, an elk, a canoe, a fir-tree, and so on indefinitely.
The largest and most grotesque totem poles seen on the trip here towered a height of fifty feet.
The totem poles are sometimes very large, perhaps four feet at the base.
Her totem had become justly celebrated, and her name known on the lips of men wherever men fished and feasted, what of the blankets and their marvellous thickness and warmth.
The telephone changed from a fearsome high-tech totem to an everyday pillar of human community.
On the right cheek is his totem, a fish traced in exceedingly small cross bars.

At his installation, the council women invest him with an elaborately ornamented tunic, place upon his head a chaplet of feathers, and paint the gentile totem on his face.
The reason for the divergence of drawing and ornament is doubtless the original motive of ornamentation, which is found in the clan or totem ideas.
I got her in fair trade from her people, who were of the Coast and whose Chilcat totem stood at the head of a salt arm of the sea.
This explains the eternal impulse to decorate totem poles and paint pictures, write poetry and expound philosophy.
From the chief totem run out two lines, one going to the picture of the desired object, while the other goes to the President, conveying the petition.
Where that system exists in full force, the members of a totem clan identify themselves with their totem animals in a way and to an extent which we find it hard even to imagine.
That is why people of the same totem are now scattered all over the country.
CHAPTER XXXI PONTIAC RECOGNIZES THE TOTEM The vexatious calm lasted for two days.
The chiefâ€™s band is almost always a kin totem which helps to sustain him.
The totem or clan which bore his name was looked up to with peculiar respect.
On either side of the oval door stood a totem, hollow at the base and containing the ashes of long-dead chiefs.
In this case one man had slain his brother, or, at least, a man of his own Totem, and was himself put to death by the kindred.
Leaving the totem poles, she began to talk of Quantuck and the vagaries of Mac.
Each separate group has its totem, its general rules with reference to the marriage relation, to hunting and fishing, to shelter and protection.
In the great majority of the American Indian and Australian tribes a man is strictly forbidden to kill or eat the animals whose name his clan bears as a totem.
Indeed, it was at that time the belief universally held by students of the science of religion that in Australia a totem was a god and a god might be a totem.
The totem was eaten, it was conjectured, with the object of acquiring the qualities of the divine creature, or of absorbing them into the person of the worshipper.
Robertson Smith had seen, or had thought he saw, amongst the Australians sacramental rites and the worship of totem gods.
Totem poles are genealogical records, and give the history of the family before whose door they stand.
So they ate the slain bear at a communal feast in which the tribesmen shared the guilt and celebrated their community with their totem and with each other.
In payment he issued letters of credit, signed with his totem, the otter.
When an Indian tribe chooses a fox or a bear as a totem, they must not be taken too literally.
The wolf will never become a lamb, and the wolf is the totem of my clan.

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