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Collected by Fred Haack in South Sudan. Haack said he spent "a great deal of time in Juba" from 1979-c. 1982, where he acquired 80 Dinka paintings. Haack wrote that the paintings were made by "a young Dinka tribesman who went to a missionary school for a few months and, with no training, put paint to canvas." The artist's name in unknown. Haack gave 70 of the paintings to the Museum of Civilization in 1994. In 1996 he gave the last 10 to the Kelowna Museum (now Okanagan Heritage Museum).

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Vertical painting of two standing anthropomorphic figures. The figures are separated and bordered by various shapes outlined with both solid and dotted lines. These shapes are filled with repeating dots in orange, with some pink. The background is solid light orange-pink. The line down the middle, separating the two figures, is pronged on each side. A half-circular shape surrounds the lower portions of the two figures. The figure on the right side has a striped and dotted design under the lower body; the left, concentric u-shapes. The cloth is stretched on a wooden stretcher and held in place by nails. There are dark red-brown paint marks on the back. There is a numbered label written in ink on the lower right side of the back of the stretcher; there are French and Arabic labels on the upper left and lower right corners (respectively) of the stretcher.