African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse brass paperclip each with two plastic cups

each with two plastic cups that stack one on top of the other under their red exterior lids

very light spots on the glass

leaning against one another with a space between them

singular form from certain angles

And in keeping with the dolphin design

African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse brass paperclip each with two plastic cupsThis 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,