I agree that the totems take up too much room and having the 3 skills mastered with name would be a nice touch. Adding the sex of villager would also be nice. Perhaps we could get totem heads that stack up 5 heads high (or how ever high you want them). Places to store them troughout the village would be nice.
It could add the spiritual feeling/look of the game. The totem area could be where the childern are thought under the watchfull eyes of the esteem elders.

I also think that the kids should gain some skills related to the items they collect. And once a kid has picked up a mushroom or whatever once or twice(or three times if he is specail) he should be able to pick the same item up on his after that.

Nursing moms should be able to teach the 10-14 year olds child care skills while keeping an eye on the other kids and gain points for that. Being stuck with a infant for 2 year without being able to interact is not fun and they don't even chat with the other moms.

Hunting could be added as a skill but make it so that you have to be 16 or 18 (a rite of passage kind of thing)before you could on ahunt and give each hunt outcome that could affect the hunter, hunting party or the village. (In the hard skill level the hunter could be killed etc)
And maybe they would only go hunts certain times of the year not like the daily thing they do for farming.