Rumaan Alam

Years ago, I worked at a fashion magazine. I was the lowest man on the totem pole, one of the only men on that particular pole: a little brother with a dozen older sisters whose grace and glamour I so admired.

American Author

Gina Rodriguez

I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics.

American Actress

Emily Carr

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

Canadian Artist

Scott Rogowsky

When you get started in comedy, you're at the bottom of the totem pole. Not only are you not getting paid at these open mics. You're actually paying to do them.

American Comedian

Denzel Washington

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

American Actor

Charisma Carpenter

On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.

Beau Willimon

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

American Playwright

Hal Needham

I was a sharecropper's son. That's as low as you can get on the totem pole.

American Director

Abigail Disney

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

David Lindsay-Abaire

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

Totem often represents important cultural beliefs and is used with respect.

Cultural Significance

While animals are common, totems can also be other natural elements or objects.

Not Just Animals

The specific totem is unique to a group and not used casually for others.

Not Interchangeable

Totem as an object may be part of artistic or ritualistic expressions of culture.

Artistic Object

Totem objects are often made from wood, stone, or other natural materials.

Material Form

Totem objects can be historical artifacts, holding information about ancient cultures.

Historical Artifact

Totem can metaphorically symbolize ideas or characteristics in modern contexts.

Metaphorical Use

A totem can represent personal qualities or an individual's public persona.

Individual Identity

As a personal symbol, totem may not always have a positive connotation.

Not Always Positive

 Well, I posit that it's something really, really simple that all of us deep down inside know and have actually felt. So when we get hired into an organization -- it could be a club, it could be a law firm, it could be a school organization, it could be anything -- no one ever jumps to the top of the totem pole, right?

Confessions of a...

 Could we design a checklist for surgery? Not for the lowest people on the totem pole, but for the folks who were all the way around the chain, the entire team including the surgeons. And what they taught us was that designing a checklist to help people handle complexity

How do we heal medicine?...

 know where the world's longest continuous Travis from its highest point it takes seven point eight seconds to fall to the ground and it has many interesting rock formations around it such as fish rock canon rock and totem pole rack

Geographic Bee 2010 - NM...

 the investigation shifted from accidental death to homicide. Now, equally important to saying what isn't there is the ability to find visual connections where they may not be apparent. Like Marie Watt's totem pole of blankets.

A lesson on looking PIPE...

 environment the forest the wildlife has always says it's part of our you know our beliefs our totem but as I said again is this needful healing so not only incentives but benefits actually its provide decent benefits that you

Compelling Models for...

 legends and totems especially about elephants the some Buddhists believe that elephants are closely related to human beings and one of the reasons is the elephant's eyelashes look like human beings the human life and most

Heartbreaking Truth...

 distinguished by their animal the turkey, the turtle, and the wolf. Members of the tribe belonging to the wolf totem were often referred to by the indigenous word for the four-footed canine, p'tuksit.

Mysteries of vernacular:...

 perfectly round ceramic bowl in another place we came upon this tapir jaw left in the cleft of a tree a kind of totem perhaps we weren't sure but these are the signs that make up the lifeblood of

The Unconquered:...

 And, one day they say, well, everybody's got a totem, some, the kangaroo, some, the emu, some are the snakes, and they give me a totem, and they said to me, "You are jabiru."

Walking Alone in the...

 and then watched by the entire village from the gallery of the longhouse a whole troop of men came out to dance around a newly erected totem pole