Muscle Man, Coq Pose, Excellent Antique RPPC gifts sign though perhaps a female santo

though perhaps a female santo

presumably representing the trunk of a tree

with wooden pegs joining legs to wide and top

which feels to me like the very essence/icon of kaleidoscope

It is a bit hard to know where one layer of papering ends and another begins--it looks to me like the paper showing on the bottom half came after the (very lovely) hand-printed wallpaper on the top and sides--based on visible layering of the two in a few spots

Muscle Man, Coq Pose, Excellent Antique RPPC gifts sign though perhaps a female santoQuite a looker, and quite a mustache! I'm not sure I ever drew the connection between strong man wrestler postures and those of roosters, but this sure brings that home; cock a doodle doo! And really excellent framing here I think, the oval mask making him feel all the more like a object specimen being closely inspected, as if through a scope, while the public setting makeshift looking wall behind him, view of park tables and chairs to the right gives