the totems you recieve are completely random. Once you get an elder you could get any of the 8 totems. I actually had a game when i got 7 different ones, got a repeat then the 8th. So close to getting all 8 different ones for first 8. I alsmost thought there was a pattern. Next game i got 3 of the same ones first. Doh.

i thought there was only 1 .. wwwwaaaaa.

I got my first totem thank you for the help!!!!!!!!!

The first time I played I thought there was only one design of totem. My first three were all identical. After that I started getting different ones. The next game I got different totems for the first five; it was only on the sixth did I get a duplicate.

I tried a new game to see if there was a pattern to the totems, skills order of receiving etc, but i got nothing, i think what happens is it gives the villager a random totem at birth, and then its all about who you decide to get to elder status that determines your totem designs.

I now have 4 Totems, 2 brown with mouth wide open, 1 blue with wide grin & a green laughing one....