post mortem of girl with bird ~ 19th century

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A cabinet card showing a young girl laid out with a stuffed bird suspended above her. The bird presumably is meant to represent either her departing soul ascending, in which case one might expect it to be facing the other direction, or the Holy Spirit descending.

Photographed by Schmidt of 7116, Broadway, Buffalo [New York].

Via: Paul Frecker

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