1932 Alaskan Native American Carved Polychrome Souvenir Totem Pole chess players And while the slides are

And while the slides are gone

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

3 1/2" x 5 3/8"

1932 Alaskan Native American Carved Polychrome Souvenir Totem Pole chess players And while the slides areIf 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,