1932 Alaskan Native American Carved Polychrome Souvenir Totem Pole chess players 3 1/2" x 5 3/8"

3 1/2" x 5 3/8"

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

featureing elaborate scripted ceremonies with masks

but what a great project for a weaver or anyone to craft custom seats for them now--I might hope in vibrant colors that would really pop against the black

Kathryn Turner

1932 Alaskan Native American Carved Polychrome Souvenir Totem Pole chess players 3 1/2" x 5 3/8"If 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,