Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets antique Mexican retablo painting Unsigned other than the two

Unsigned other than the two words "My Mel" on reverse

or maybe timber

1880s British

Absent a lid as evident

It appears that all of the original pieces are here

Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets antique Mexican retablo painting Unsigned other than the twoA very curious one, feeling to me like an early film still very striking, but what is going on here? Perhaps the woman in the foreground (what a face!) is in fact on ice skates, which would explain her strange posture, or perhaps she is hiding something or someone behind her skirt? (Is there a child there, bent over, in black too?) And what is the woman behind her with raised arm as if about to chop the air actually doing? I don't know, but in their