African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center 11” wide x 68” long

11” wide x 68” long

There is wear to this box consistent with its age

mid-20th century I believe

Beautifully crafted in the 1960s

The seasonal materials with which this basket was made are indigenous to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington

African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center 11” wide x 68” longThis African folk art painting poses a bit of a mystery. It is emblematic of paintings from Zimbabwe and Cameroon, which similarly feature numerous figures and animals, engaged in various activities, rendered in wonderfully bright colors and patterns and, like this one, painted on panel as well as its surrounding frame. But what makes this one particularly intriguing is that pasted to the back of the painting and written in pencil in a childlike hand,