Featured Carved wood Chakwaina Kachina doll help.

I saw this at my favorite thrift today and couldn't pass it up for $9.00. He is 15 1/2" tall and signed on the bottom.
Hoping to find out more about this sculpture as i would call it.
And the artist. Also the break on the symbol on the back of his head i am not sure if it was a large piece broke off?
Mikey

 

Here's another by P. Adams.

https://www.icollector.com/Hopi-Mudhead-Carving-by-P-Adams_i39131552

Debora

 

Thank you Debora.
Looks like it didn't sell. Nice appraisal though.

 

Looks Navajo. Cottonwood. Nice find!

Here's a previous explanation:

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/a...an-anyone-read-the-siggie.51191/#post-2351559

 

Could be Cottonwood. But it it Hopi not Navajo.
Mikey

 

Likely missing a wooden feather decoration, that would have hung down from the attached red and blue disc on the back of its head.
Something like this...

 

That does seem likely. Thanks!

 

I like it and would have bought it too, but it isn't a Kachina doll. It is more like an artist's rendition.

 

Thanks @Any Jewelry. I thought it was cool that it is made from a tree branch.
Mikey

 

I believe it's oftentimes cottonwood root, as I think the roots have certain important symbolic characteristics.

Here's an unusual one I have, that's maybe unfinished, and that definitely shows a root structure shape.