Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work metal folk art bird' with room for just a

with room for just a few tall trees around the edges

I believe likely French

all pointing up toward the peak of the frame--and altogether evincing a sort of vernacular holy trinity

2 3/16" t x 1 1/2" w x 1/2" d

I placed it in this lovely little antique tramp art frame

Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work metal folk art bird' with room for just aNot 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,