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ammaN." The two dominant tendencies seem to be to 

 represent the ent in- animal, or to sin^r orae charac- 



teristic feature of the animal which serves as an unmis- 

 takable mark of i<l< ntification. Although many of these 

 carvings are most r-a!i-: have been so far con- 



1 that i. lrntitiratic.il is ilifticiilt. llesi<l<*s 



fiE 78. Totem Pole*. 



these carved masks there are the familiar totem poles 

 which stand before the houses of the Indians. 84 These 

 generally represent the history of the clan or famliy. "In 

 the prolific development of art realistic in part and in 

 highly conventionalized we must see the ... dyna- 

 mic clement of the totemism of Bri olumbia. 

 Deeply saturated with tot< mi<> associations, that art has 



77. MSee fiura 7S. 



