Halloween-y Old Paper Cut Snowflakes and Owl! primitive mirror I had to double check

I had to double check with an eraser that these hands were drawn in pencil rather than printed

in Japanese--dates from the Meiji period

His hand-drawn face is pretty good too

" And lots of use of the word empalement

Spruce gum

Halloween-y Old Paper Cut Snowflakes and Owl! primitive mirror I had to double checkIt's been chilly here at night of late, and I can hear the owls out there hooting away, all of which reminds me Halloween is not too far away, which is what this little group of cutouts calls to mind for me. I'm a sucker for paper cutouts of all sorts, but really like how the owl (with pencil drawn face) animates this set, which work well layered atop one another, easily popped into a frame together. Owl measures 5 5 8" wide. Largest "snowflake"