Painting
Item number 3595/56 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number 3595/56 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Vertical painting depicting a stylized anthropomorphic figure. The figure's head and arms are raised up, toward the top. The figure is primarily brown with orange lines, circles, drop shapes, dots, and u-shapes decorating the head and body. Orange lines extend down from the figure's arms and connect to larger designs at the bottom of the canvas. These designs surround and connect to the decorations on the lower portion of the figure's body. The designs primarily consist of orange dots, lines, and u- and v-shapes as well as brown lines and dots. The cloth is stretched on a wooden stretcher and held in place by nails. There are several paint marks on the back. There are two illegible inscriptions/labels on the back and three (one legible; the other two, illegible) on the back of the stretcher.
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 depicting a stylized anthropomorphic figure. The figure's head and arms are raised up, toward the top. The figure is primarily brown with orange lines, circles, drop shapes, dots, and u-shapes decorating the head and body. Orange lines extend down from the figure's arms and connect to larger designs at the bottom of the canvas. These designs surround and connect to the decorations on the lower portion of the figure's body. The designs primarily consist of orange dots, lines, and u- and v-shapes as well as brown lines and dots. The cloth is stretched on a wooden stretcher and held in place by nails. There are several paint marks on the back. There are two illegible inscriptions/labels on the back and three (one legible; the other two, illegible) on the back of the stretcher.
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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