Dear Dina,
As far as I know only the sun and the moon are symbols between lots of
animals and the human beeing itself.
When we travelled Canada I bought a little booklet about this Indian Art
with the title Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast from Hilary
Stewart. perhaps you could find
My lace class is making a group entry for the Lace Guild's Myth Mystery
competition and our piece is a freestanding totem pole.
Can any of our Canadian spiders tell me if the First Nations use symbols for
earth, air, fire and water which would be used on totem poles and if so what
they are, as
Can any of our Canadian spiders tell me if the First Nations use symbols
for
earth, air, fire and water which would be used on totem poles and if so
what
they are, as I've looked on the net but can't find anything (maybe I'm
looking in the wrong places) and our local UK library is not into
On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Esther Perry wrote:
A quick reference to the book Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest
Coast
by Hilary Stewart shows as design motifs many animals, the sun, the
moon and
the human. No mention of the four elements. Nor have I ever heard
stories
Dina,
Here's another site about Haida art. Although other tribes have started
making totem poles the Haida on the west coast of what is now British
Columbia and Alaska were the first to do so. This site actually tells
about design principles found in their art.
i don't know of any canadian totem poll symbols for earth, air, water,
and fire, but if you want to use the keltic symbols for your totem
poll, it would be: an eagle or bird for air, a bull for earth, a
dolphin, fish, or water nymph for water, and a dragon for fire. i hope
that helps even though
