Wooden Sculpture, perhaps Native American

Cathy found this carved wooden sculpture at a yard sale. It's about 13cm tall (slightly over 5 inches), and features two characters. The seller said it was given to her husband by a travelling friend, and she wasn't sure what country he was in when he bought it.

After scouring the internet, we think the figures are Native American in origin, possibly Pueblo Clowns.

The figure on the left could also be the "Heyoka", a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Lakota people of the Great Plains of North America. It is possible that the figure on the right is not a Native American clown, but rather a non-native circus clown, perhaps to highlight the fact that clowns appear in both cultures, or as a symbol of unity, or something like that.

Or perhaps we have it entirely wrong.