Some, covered with obscene totemic figures and designs, were carved from solid tree trunks forty or fifty feet in length.

It is a rich ethnographic display, filled with animistic paintings and totemic figures carved in wood or painted on bark.

Thousands of tiny totemic figures, really repetitively rendered marks, mill around on it.

A brooding totemic figure, he appeared onstage with his actors, serving as conductor, stagehand and silent watchman.

On the ground floor there is a glassed-in area filled with weather-beaten house-posts and totemic figures.

Many of us probably think we know African art when we see it: It's those fierce masks, totemic figures and bright textiles, right?

Then she met what she came to think of as two totemic figures.

Its leaves dropped, one by one, and the tiny, totemic figure of a woman appeared from its center.

Theodor Adorno - that great totemic figure of the 1960s and 1970s avant-garde - must be rotating in his grave.

Standing on these boards are totemic figures assembled from pieces of demolished clothes irons.