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68 says the whole number of totems of the (Chippeway) Ojibway indians is indefinite and he says further that the totem is derived from the "Dodaim" a town or village and from this no ?doubt? that as the family grew it formed a village and each village was originally the family residence and it is easy to see that from the fact that each man of that village had the same sign the designation of village or Dodaim was given to that sign or symbol.

  It is stated that most indians can make and do when asked their named make the totem symbol, however true this may have been in years long since gone it is not true at the present day. only one indian in the writers experience knew the totems well enough to draw them. and thus are extremely adverse to drawing them this may be due now to the fact that the indian is now more cautious in his dealings with the whites as he has become wary and shy of the white man and his ways.  However by careful study and searching we have secured authoritative facsimile of twenty totems that exist at present or in the recent past among the Ojibway tribes and by tradition we learn that there are still some others that as yet we have not procured.  the only method of doing so is visiting the grave and examining the totem sticks always there found and this method is hazardous. the writer got in a serious altercation with the Third chief of the Lac du Flambeau tribe for attempting to make a drawing of a totem stick that was stuck in the ground near the grave of one of his ancestors.  Among these which we have not procured but which are known to exist are the "Bi-Shiw" - Lynx.  "Mous" - Moose (the same as the Elk) "sucker"  "A-dih-a-meg." "White fish"  "Amik"  "Beaver"  "Ga-ya-ashk"  "Gull" "Hawk" same as Eagle, "A-Ji-Jak" "Pelican"
  The spelling of the names of the various totems being different according to different authors we have add all the variations that have come under our eye. and give a drawing of each as follows.  And it must be borne in mind that the ? are seldom in fact never exactly the same but these drawings are from totems as they exist and are types.