Hand-carved Polychrome Vintage Wooden Kachina Doll wooden tower performance IQ

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I have long admired these sorts of tiles-- produced in the 18th and 19th century during the Qajar period in Persia--which very frequently feature hunters on horses like this one

Really a lovely addition to a collection of beautiful boxes

Now an iconic symbol of the suffragette movement

was carried atop the shoulders of other tribesmen to his mate

Hand-carved Polychrome Vintage Wooden Kachina Doll wooden tower performance IQI am pretty certain this sweet, smiling guy is a Native American Pueblo kachina doll from the Southwest US, made in the 1940s or 50s for the tourist market I'd think. Kachinas dolls were traditionally made by Pueblo men, and used to teach children the identities of many various kachinas (spirits) observed by the people that Pueblo, with the identity of the particularly spirit described less through the form of the body but rather through the applied