Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work winged women -- and multiple post marks

-- and multiple post marks

Both approx 4 1/2" long

though it seems quite possible those eye brows and lashes and lips were enhanced along the way

" On the reverse

) Such an elegant form suggesting a bird through the sparest of means (it feels to me quite reminiscent of early Native American bird stones)

Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work winged women -- and multiple post marksNot for the feint of heart, but quite a striking and potent as well as unusual cut paper silhouette, I'd say. Which, as I look at it, seems all to hinge on this woman standing before the beheaded figure I'd like to imagine it is she who has finally gotten justice. (Being strongly averse to capital punishment, myself, I'll read that justice as metaphorical.) Hard to look at a silhouetted scene like this without thinking of the work of Kara Walker now,