totempole

totempole
totem pole n.
1. A post carved and painted with a series of family or clan crests or with figures representing mythic beings and erected usually before a dwelling, as among certain Native American peoples of the northwest coast of North America.
2. Slang. A hierarchy:

low on the totem pole.

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