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animals.-' Tlie two dominant tendencies seem to be to 

 represent the entire animal, or to single out some charac- 

 teristic feature of the animal which serves as an unmis- 

 takable mark of identification. Although many of these 

 carvings arc most realistic, some have l)een so far con- 

 ventionalized that identification is difficult. Besides 



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FK.UHt: (S. Totem ruled. 



these carved masks there are the familiar totem poles 

 which stand before the houses of the Indians.'^^ These 

 generally represent the history of the clan or fandiy. ' ' In 

 the prolific development of art— realistic in part and in 

 part highly conventionalized — we must see the . . . dyna- 

 mic element of the totemism of British Columbia. 

 Deeply saturated with totemic associations, that art has 



33 See fiKiire 77. "* See figure 78. 



