1932 Alaskan Native American Carved Polychrome Souvenir Totem Pole chess players and is structurally solid with

and is structurally solid with very little bristle loss or looseness

The pillowcases

featureing elaborate scripted ceremonies with masks

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 and is structurally solid withIf 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,