Curious Pair of Old Carved Birds (Falcons?) on Posts handprinted make do sign either Tlingit and Haida

either Tlingit and Haida

Man or woman I am not entirely sure

with the box glazed in bright white and the flat lid in grays and yellow feeling very late 50s modernist abstraction

15" t x 6 1/2" w

Curious Pair of Old Carved Birds (Falcons?) on Posts handprinted make do sign either Tlingit and HaidaI purchased this these from a dealer based in Pennsylvania, but really don't know anything specific about them. I take them for falcons, calling to mind ancient Egyptian ones; they also remind me of a couple of old men standing on the corner talking about sports and neighborhood news! It seems possible they actually functioned as decoys of sorts, as there are a bunch of holes in the wood, as if a woodpecker went to work pecking away at them, and I