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Mbhirst_at_TeacherArtExchange Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 14:56:51 PDT
I did awesome toem poles with high school 3-D students a couple of years ago. We studied traditional poles and symbols then invented our own, present culture symbols to build on the poles. We did an installation of them in our school's Prairie and had an opening ceremony. It was very cool. These poles were 12 ft. tall. Here are a couple of good sites: <A HREF="http://collections.ic.gc.ca/totems/contents.htm">http://collections.ic.gc.ca/totems/contents.htm> <A HREF="http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/totem_poles.htm">http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/totem_poles.htm> <A HREF="http://users.imag.net/~sry.jkramer/nativetotems/default.html#Meaning%20of%20Totem%20poles"> http://users.imag.net/~sry.jkramer/nativetotems/default.html#Meaning%20of%20Tot
em%20poles</A>
I also remember that I received criticism from people on this list for working with these sacred artforms as "art".
Marcia
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