Hippopotamus
Cross River Region (Southern Nigeria; Coastal West Africa)
9th/mid–19th century
- Medium
- Bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- H.: 20.3 cm (8 in.)
- Culture
- Nigeria
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Sylvia Shaw Judson, Theodora Shaw King, and David Shaw King in memory of Howard Van Doren Shaw
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
