A panjska končnica is the small board that closes the front of a Carniolan hive — about 12 to 15 cm high and nearly two and a half times as wide. Beekeepers had them painted so they could tell one hive from another in a stacked bee house.

Roughly six hundred motifs survive. Half are saints and devotions; the rest are village satire — the devil sharpening a woman's tongue, animals hauling the hunter to his grave. Pale sky ground, an ochre band around the edge, a hand-lettered date, a joke everyone already knew.