Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets old carved bird Aged as evident but sound

Aged as evident but sound and stable

make me swoon (see detail photos

9 1/2” inches tall x 4” widest diameter

I really love the form and texture of this contemporary basket

as a 12 volume series aiming to "spread the knowledge of the epochs out before children"

Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets old carved bird Aged as evident but soundA very curious one, feeling to me like an early film still very striking, but what is going on here? Perhaps the woman in the foreground (what a face!) is in fact on ice skates, which would explain her strange posture, or perhaps she is hiding something or someone behind her skirt? (Is there a child there, bent over, in black too?) And what is the woman behind her with raised arm as if about to chop the air actually doing? I don't know, but in their