You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

In addition to Klee Wyck Carr wrote The Book of Small (1942) The House of All Sorts (1944) and publiEmily Carrd posthumously Growing Pains (1946) Pause The Heart of a Peacock (1953) and Hundreds and Thousands (1966). On her return to the south Carr organized an exhibit of some of this work and delivered a detailed lecture about the aboriginal villages that Emily Carr had visited which ended with her mission statement:

I glory in our wonderful west and I hope to leave behind me some of the relics of its first primitive greatness. With her ability to travel curtailed Carr's focus shifted from her painting to her writing.

Emily Carr (December 13 1871 – March 2 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a "Canadian icon".