Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work winged women and perfect flourishes below the

and perfect flourishes below the lettering

There is a good amount of scratching to the surface and a little roughness around a few edges as pictured--signifiying that this is a tool meant to be used

Both approx 4 1/2" long

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

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

Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work winged women and perfect flourishes below theNot 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,