1932 Alaskan Native American Carved Polychrome Souvenir Totem Pole chess players with a bit of wear

with a bit of wear to the leather of the upwardly pointing toe

The pillowcases

initially sold door-to-door by college students and  later purchased in large quantities by organizations

I am fairly certain it was once a marionette-style puppet

1932 Alaskan Native American Carved Polychrome Souvenir Totem Pole chess players with a bit of wearIf you look very closely, you will see that ALASKA is painting across the front of the red section of this base on this Native American made souvenir totem pole, either Tlingit and Haida, dated 1932 on the underside. It is increasingly hard to find older ones like this, and it's a really good one I think, nicely carved and wonderfully painted, with great alligatoring to the paint now. I believe at top is an owl, with these terrifically colorful wings,