Totem Pole Carving

[@zamajamba4455]

The spider that crawled up the owl… besides the little eight-legged monster, this carving was absolutely beautiful.

[@jolantapyra]

Beautifully executed carving, and a fabulous story!

[@nickizcool20]

This is really cool!!! I found your video searching for how to make totem poles I have a fallen tree log and I want to make a totem pole out of it

[@ewchoob]

great work mate :-)

[@meepsheep803]

How long did this take?

[@rodney73991]

ceader split really easy. well dry anyway. is expensive. pine fast grow tree not expensive but more nots that worry show up spots don't want it. all know two woods. chain saw guy seem like pine.

[@aatossaarva9863]

wery well here natura living working in sprity and normaly hailithes . Gad is gud salom in finland .. Kaleva land .. åld vinking land..

[@laneeardink9849]

how did Indians carve totem poles without metal tools?

[@Mr._Lister_The_Sister_Phister]

They used male beavers: they would hog-tie a male beaver, hold it up to the wood, and then squeeze its testicles. This triggered a reflex which caused the beaver to gnaw extremely rapidly - so rapidly in fact, that a single beaver was only SLIGHTLY less effective than the most powerful modern chainsaw. The only downside is that this method wore down the beavers teeth extremely fast, within about 10 minutes, so the tribe would need to round up a large number of beavers for every totem pole occasion. Once a beavers teeth were worn down, it was killed and scalped in a sacrifice to honor the gods represented on the totem pole. The Polemaster would then toss the beaver scalp over his head, and the tribes squaws would compete to see who could catch the most. This is where we get our tradition of catching the flowers tossed by the bride at a wedding. Also, upon catching a beaver scalp, it was customary for the squaw (who was almost certainly nude) to immediately fashion the beaver scalp into a makeshift loincloth. This is the origin of why we refer to a lady's intimate area as a hairy beaver. Another interesting factoid is that the native song being sung in the background was designed to drive the beavers to gnaw even more vigorously. The idea was, upon hearing the song, the beavers would try to wear down their teeth as fast as possible, so they could be killed and thus spared the torture of listening to that noise any longer.

[@adsabine1]

This is not culturally relevant to the coastal natives that own the rights to these stories, In the old days telling someone else's story without there permission would mean war if you didn't put up a feast, A pole has many stories that is a families property. Although very generous of you to donate it, although you should know more about the coastal culture before you post this.

[@عبداللهالعمري-ح3ض]

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