Art History AnimaliaFeb 16
#WorldHippoDay 🦛:
Wood #hippopotamus mask (Utobo), 1930s
Central Ijo. Nembe, Niger Delta, Nigeria
Cambridge Museum of Archeology and Anthropology 2014.290 https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/555732/
#AfricanArt
Art History AnimaliaFeb 16
Another goofy hippo face for #WorldHippoDay 🦛:
The #hippopotamus. Chromolithograph by Gibson & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1874.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_hippopotamus,_1874.jpg
Art History AnimaliaFeb 16
For #WorldHippoDay :
happy happy hippos 🦛🦛🦛
Detail from a woodcut illustration in _Men and Creatures in Uganda_ by Sir John Bland-Sutton (British, 1855-1936), 1933, p. 46.
Library of Congress World Digital Library collection: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_09951/?sp=50&st=image
FrameToFrameNatureFeb 15
Happy #WorldHippoDay! 🦛These enormous herbivores proved fun to watch at Sunset Dam in Kruger National Park. #nature #naturephotography #Africa #hippo #animals
Out of Context Podcast QuotesFeb 15
"She is a hippo." - BROTI GUPTA, clones//fiona the hippo, Lecture Hall Podcast #lecturehallpod #lecturehallpodcast #WorldHippoDay #BrotiGupta
Out of Context Podcast QuotesFeb 15
"There are wild hippos in the area." - JEYCA MALDONADO-MEDINA, Mini-Stories: Volume 16, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #WorldHippoDay
Terry MatzFeb 15

Hip Hippo-Ray! It's World Hippo Day! The modern "river horse" has been around for 7.5 million years. That's a lot of candles!
Celebrate with free hippopotamus knitting patterns like these from my post
https://intheloopknitting.com/hippo-knitting-patterns.php

#knitting #WorldHippoDay

Ratatosk™Feb 15
Happy World Hippo Day!
🦛
Hip-Hip-Hippo-Ray!!!
#Tanzania
#WorldHippoDay #hippopotamus
Maria CaroleFeb 15

"How to Celebrate World Hippo Day
...
Watch a Movie With Hippos"

Ok! Mitäs katsotaan?

#worldhippoday

Show threadArdentArchivistFeb 15

@ninawillburger

And in honour of #WorldHippoDay (and your wonderful carving, Nina!) I feel compelled to post one of my favourite poems from when I were a lass.
(Split across multiple posts):
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