Chewing the Rag: Antique Mounted "Ectoplasm" Spirit Photo with Two Women. late 19th/early 20th c. vintage watercolor sets I love her narrow hips

I love her narrow hips in relation to her broad shoulders

Perfectly stark and strong in its original black paint

with her seated body itself feeling rather like a bowl for the bowl resting in her lap

Rectangular chips: 2 3/8" l

] with boco I believe referring to something as childish or stupid

Chewing the Rag: Antique Mounted "Ectoplasm" Spirit Photo with Two Women. late 19th/early 20th c. vintage watercolor sets I love her narrow hipsA very curious one, which I think one could write a whole book about! I am no expert on "spirit " photograph, but this seems to be an example though perhaps a very self aware or even tongue in cheek one specifically portraying (via a length of what I presume is cheesecloth stretching between the mouths of these two women) an "ectoplasmic" event. And then above the mounted photo, written in ink: "chewing the rag," an expression, English in origin and