Horizontal painting on animal hide depicting a nativity scene with four human figures. Three adults are crouched or kneeling around a baby wrapped in white cloth and laying on hay. Two adult figures on the viewer's left and right sides have yellow circles (halos) with red lines behind their heads. The baby also appears to have a halo. The adult figure in the centre of the painting does not have a halo, but there is black and red Ethiopian text above their head that extends to the right, above the halo of the figure on the viewer's right. Three small animal heads are located between the centre and right figures. There is additional black Ethiopian text below the left foot of the figure on the viewer's right side. On the back of the skin, there is a small numbered label written in ink on the lower right corner.

• Narrative

  Collected by Fred Haack while living in Africa. Acquired by the Kelowna Museum (now Okanagan Heritage Museum) in 1996.

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• Type of Item painting
• Culture Ethiopian
• Measurements height 30.3 cm, width 39.6 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Fred E. Haack, Okanagan Heritage Museum
• Received from Okanagan Heritage Museum

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• Made in Ethiopia

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• Collection Date between 1979 and 1990
• Ownership Date before 1996, before September 14, 2022
• Acquisition Date on September 14, 2022

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• Item Classes paintings
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3595/0065