![]() The word totem derives from the Algonquian word odoodem meaning "(his) kinship group". ![]() They are usually made from large trees, mostly western red cedar, by First Nations and Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast including northern Northwest Coast Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian communities in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Kwakwaka'wakw and Nuu-chah-nulth communities in southern British Columbia, and the Coast Salish communities in Washington and British Columbia. They are a type of Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures. Totem poles ( Haida: gyáaʼaang) are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. ![]() A Gitxsan pole (left) and Kwakwaka'wakw pole (right) at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, Canada.
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