Hand-carved Polychrome Vintage Wooden Kachina Doll wooden tower was carried atop the shoulders

was carried atop the shoulders of other tribesmen to his mate

and there is a fold in the drawing at the bottom right corner and some small scattered discolorations to the paper

Photos show the paper as a bit yellower than it is

as is typically the case

Hand-carved Polychrome Vintage Wooden Kachina Doll wooden tower was carried atop the shouldersI 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