Hand-carved Polychrome Vintage Wooden Kachina Doll wooden tower I have long admired these

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

which is the perfect size and shape to fill with everything from daffodils to lilac to peonies and more

and think it's a real beauty--and wonderfully direct

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

Just stunning

Hand-carved Polychrome Vintage Wooden Kachina Doll wooden tower I have long admired theseI 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