Totem

Wall Label This painting was complete in mid-June in the year 1937 in time to be featured in France’s World Fair, after the bombing of the town Guernica in Spain on April 26 of that same year.i Pablo Picasso was known not to be very involved with politics in till the takeover of Spain by Socialists and Communist groups in 1936. This takeover lead to many revolts that resulted in the bombing of the town of Guernica. Picasso having been born and raised in Spain felt great pain when hearing about…

Haida Gwaii Nation. Albert Edward Edenshaw (1810-1854) was the first Chief Edenshaw of the Dadens after his family moved to Kung in 1853, he built a big house with two ornately carved frontal posts that resembled bears. He was commissioned to build a totem pole for a chief thereby launching his career in carving (citation). Following tradition, Albert Edward Edenshaw chose his nephew Charles Edenshaw to carry his mantle not only as chief but also artistically (citation). Charles Edenshaw…

Indigenous Australians with totems which were symbolic to an Indigenous community. These totems provided Aboriginal nations with specific rituals, ceremonies and sacred locations. Furthermore, Fryer-Smith (2002) states that totems serve as a symbol for the moieties, class and clan. Additionally, it is the responsibility of that Indigenous community to protect that totem (p. 2:6). This structure of totemism allows for Indigenous communities to be recognised by their totems. Similarly, this…

Stork: A stork denotes the arrival of a new-born. Storks are symbolic of feminine power. Additionally, they also signify new birth, new creation and renewal of life. It is observed that human beings with a stork totem spossess inventive creative imagination, and have a wealth of new ideas. Furthermore, they tend to make for moving and motivating characters. Your message: Emerge, arise, ascend higher and reinvigorate your mind! Peacock: The peacock is, for the most part, an image of…

the argument is “easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life”(Jerzy Gregorek). Within the short stories Totem written by Thomas King and A Perfect Day For Bananafish written by J.D. Salinger a truth within humanity is shown. The story Totem takes place in a museum in Alberta and the totem poles are making sounds that are annoying to the people in the museum so they displace the totem poles. This is indirectly symbolizing the native communities of Canada and how they are ignored and pushed…

The Dreaming is a perpetual concept underpinning Aboriginal Spirituality and culture that is inexorably connected with the Indigenous Australian fundamentality of land and identity. This multifaceted system that is symbolic of the central spiritual beliefs regarding creation and existence is submerged and has an intrinsic attachment to the land and identity of Indigenous Australians. The dreaming is embedded in land and has formed a strong sense of identity and validation from the setting of…

Christopher Nolan’s Inception has an ending that will make any viewer want to become a mathematician and try to solve the equation of the ending. If the spinning top fall or not. Now after we finished the film we were angry at the ending but amazed at the same time. If his in dream state or in reality, now this film make you have sleep-less nights thinking if the spinning top falls. Now the idea about the ending is that we were the audience to the whole dream and the end was a kick back to…

Mile’s CEPA Project (Tlingit Tribe) My project was a totem pole from the tribes of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States; specifically the Tlingit. It took me 2-3 hours to make it. (I also got some help from my mom too). All of the materials came from my mom, too. There are three animals on my totem pole. They are a bear, wolf, and eagle. The bear represents strength and courage, as these were two things needed to live the hard life of a Native American. The wolf represents…

meanings and symbolism behind them. For example, the totem in Inception symbolizes reality; whether the characters are dreaming or are in real life. Cobb's totem is a spinning top, and he uses this to test whether he is in reality or not. If it stops spinning, it means he is dreaming. In the last scene of Inception, Cobb finally returns home and spins his totem to check if he is in reality. When he sees his children, he forgets about the totem and runs in their arms. The scene doesn’t show if…

Aboriginal people (Indigenous people of Australia, see Image 1) have the longest living cultural history of any single language group in the world, dating back to more than 50,000 years. It has been able to survive this long as it is a dynamic culture. A dynamic culture is a culture that is able to adapt to the time period and is able to change without losing its core paradigms. This is why Aboriginal spirituality is known as a dynamic religion as its culture which is dynamic, shaped its…