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n. An animal, plant, or natural object serving among certain tribal or traditional peoples as the emblem of a clan or family and sometimes revered as its founder, ancestor, or guardian.

n. A representation of such an object.

n. A social group having a common affiliation to such an object.

n. A venerated emblem or symbol: "grew up with the totems and taboos typical of an Irish Catholic kid in Boston” ( Connie Paige).

n. Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family.

n. The representation of such object or creature.

n. The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature.

n. 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; also, the object or animal itself, considered as an symbol of the family.

n. Anything which serves as a venerated or mystic symbol or emblem.

n. Among the Indians of North America, a natural object, usually an animal, assumed as the token or emblem of a clan or family, and a representation of which served as a cognizance for each member of it; hence, a more or less similar observance and usage among other uncivilized peoples. See totemism.

n. emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians)

n. a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object

"I add that, granting for the sake of argument that these traces may point to totemism in the remote past, the mouse, though originally a totem, '_need not have been an Aryan totem_' (p. 116)."

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totemism    totem pole    totemically   

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