Kansas City 1906 Priests of Pallas Masked Ball Souvenir Cloisonne Plate / Plaque brass hedgehog touching her belly rather than

touching her belly rather than covering her breasts

I didn't know much at all about the history of "The Band of Hope" when I purchased this early 20th century hand-drawn postcard

I am sure she had a lot of style

as if in motion

it seems perhaps a portrait of the dynamics of a relationship

Kansas City 1906 Priests of Pallas Masked Ball Souvenir Cloisonne Plate / Plaque brass hedgehog touching her belly rather thanThis one is especially for my Kansas City friends, and carries a pretty interesting history. Plus, I think it is a pretty gorgeous thing! The P. O. P stands for "Priests of Pallas", which was a huge, extravagant week long event founded in 1887 by Kansas City leaders with the intent of re defining the city as "the Athens of the West", hence the image of Athena at the bottom center of the plate. Among many other things, the festival (which ran annually