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These are actually just two wings of an angel. The artist give this tattoo a low relief effect, or a bas-relief in French, which is derived from the Italian basso rilievo) or low relief is where the overall depth of a projecting image is shallow. The background is very compressed or completely flat, as on most coins, on which all images are in low-relief.