They placed their faith in Man-Above and their reliance in battle on Flat-Pipe, the sacred totem of the tribe.

In the early 1990s, the Haisla First Nation of the Pacific Northwest began a lengthy struggle to repatriate a sacred totem from Sweden's Museum of Ethnography.

What it does desecrate is a sacred totem of many people's childhoods: the Candy Land board game.

The sharks, which is a sacred totem to the Ngarrindjeri, are represented by Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri.

In this parched jungle he had immense authority; to his fierce neighbours he was a sort of warlock, a sacred totem, a holy fool, respected and feared and obeyed.

The rest were shipped to England, where they were sold as fertilizer, an ignominious end for one of the most sacred totems of ancient Egypt.

The sacred totem of Ngchesar is the Stingray.

She carries the crumpled slips of papers attesting to her HIV status in her handbag like sacred totems.

My mother and I treated the snapshot as a sacred totem, taking it out on special nights to worship the image.

Drizzt knelt before the sacred totem one afternoon, watching the splay of sunlight on the tilted helmet.