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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a small, card replica of a totem pole sold widely to souvenir buyers in British Columbia and elsewhere.
Quotations
1964
The talented carver has to choose between volume production of low-priced souvenir [totem] poles (called by some "idiot sticks") and works of high quality which must be sold at high prices.