This is a vintage 1960's terracotta figural chess set, by Canadian artist Eija Seras.

All the pieces signed EIJA on the base. Eija Seras made Inuit figures, sculpted from terracotta,

she lived for a period at the U.S. Air Force base in Goose Bay, Labrador, in the 1960s. Comes with a contemporary weaved basket/case with a frog handle