What you are referring to is the Maori Pou carving. Maori are the indigenous race of New Zealand. The Māori understands that all things created have the power of the Spirit. The Māori spirituality is such that the belief is that the supreme spirit, Matua Kore, enters into his descendants as a dream, whereby the land will appear like a pillar (Pou Kapūa), long as a white cloud - Aotearoa. An acknowledgement of the creation, the great migrations and a memorial to the explorers who attained, refined and passed on their knowledge. Many figures large and small have their place on the Pou including Tangaroa, the guardian of the oceans; Kupe, Polynesian explorer extraordinaire; Maui, demigod, adventurer; Tawhaki, attainer of the baskets of knowledge; and Matakerepo, holder of the sacred knowledge to the gateways of the heavens are also carved on the Pou.
Pou Pou are the upright slabs that form the solid framework of the walls of a whare (house). The carvings are representative of tupuna or ancestors.
Learn more here http://www.maori.info/maori_art.htm
Totem poles belong to the culture of the Native Americans.
Poles Apart was created in 1994.
Blue Poles was created in 1952.
Phantom of the Poles was created in 1906.
The role that the totem poles play is that they summon the spirits of your totem and then your totems will always be with you and they will help you.
Association of Poles in Lithuania was created in 1990.
Union of Poles in Germany was created in 1922.
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Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania was created on 1994-08-28.
No, that would have been the Native Alaskan Indians.
The coastal tribes of British Columbia, Washington and southern Yukon, as well as Vancouver Island created totem poles.