Marvelous 1970 Kenyan Painting of Kikuyu, Signed Walter Alex Ngigi antique carved wood box for representing an easy way

for representing an easy way to collect lots of little landscape paintings

the most  basic being sliding the tiles to put them in order from 1-15

I found it at the estate sale of an actress and philanthropist and like to imagine it was a souvenir from perhaps a first apartment rental in New York or London

and Reduction of Fractions

Very skillfully done

Marvelous 1970 Kenyan Painting of Kikuyu, Signed Walter Alex Ngigi antique carved wood box for representing an easy wayI found this fantastic painting in New Hampshire, but have no idea how it got there, as both the painter and the subject are Kenyan. Perhaps it was purchased, or given as a gift to a fellow student or teacher of the artists at the Technic Institute in Nairobi the address of which is noted on reverse who brought it back to the states. I have no idea, but what a portrait! Drawn in pencil along the top edge of the painting one can just make out Kikuyu