Hand-carved Polychrome Vintage Wooden Kachina Doll rustic planter This box shows wonderful detail

This box shows wonderful detail in the patterning all over and feels like a small piece of architecture

More likely

these signs of age add to the appeal of this piece

2 7/8" tall

Hand-carved Polychrome Vintage Wooden Kachina Doll rustic planter This box shows wonderful detailI 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