African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse beautiful cufflinks just amazed by the fineness

just amazed by the fineness of their incised decoration

making for a pair of striking and delightful boxes great for jewelry

visible from the back view

are rendered in brown polished stone

I imagine this sweet woodblock was carved by a member of a boy scout troop in the 1940s or so

African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse beautiful cufflinks just amazed by the finenessThis 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,