DCHP-3

totem crest

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among West Coast Indians: the symbol of a social group such as a clan or phratry.

See: crest(def. 1)

Quotations

1891
The designs are carefully and symetrically drawn, are often hereditary, and represent the totem crest of the wearer; the face, however, is never tattooed.