Victorian Hair Mourning Piece, Vine with Flowers Atop Cross, Alouisa Johnson portrait of fireman with the hook at the

with the hook at the end perhaps a later addition

black ink on stiff

5” long x 2” wide  x 5” tall

She is missing one arm but her remaining arm and legs are well attached and can be positioned any way

Surely made during WWII

Victorian Hair Mourning Piece, Vine with Flowers Atop Cross, Alouisa Johnson portrait of fireman with the hook at theI found this art an estate sale in near Amherst, MAthe home of collectors of tons of daguerreotypes, primitives, American art pottery, Native baskets, and all sorts of other things. It took me a bit to realize it, but the piecemade entirely of strands of hair painstakingly looped and knotted around and through a wire armaturecomprises a cross for the bottom layer, with a leafy vine punctuated with flowers over top. It was secured to paper, with the