African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center Or turn it upside down--it

Or turn it upside down--it sits squarely on the ears and snout--and use it as a vase or even as a planter

There is wear to this box consistent with its age

it is in excellent condition

the vase is animated with expressionistically applied glazes of inky black and dark green

African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center Or turn it upside down--itThis 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,