African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse beautiful cufflinks One side of the planter

One side of the planter features a large white crane set against a red sky and blue waves below

and 3/4" in height

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

just amazed by the fineness of their incised decoration

African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse beautiful cufflinks One side of the planterThis 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,