Hippopotamus Mask (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

19th–20th century
Possibly Bamum
wood
Cameroon
Overall: 6 × 9 × 15 in. (15.24 × 22.86 × 38.1 cm)
81.25
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
Spirit of the Motherland. African Exhibition. Museum of Western Virginia. Roanoke, VA., July - October 1995. Peninsula Fine Arts Center. Newport News, VA., January - May 1996.

Spotlight Loans. Roanoke. 25 January - 19 April 1989.

Tributary. Peninsula Fine Arts Center. Newport News,VA. 25 April - 25 June 1989.

Personae: Masks from Africa and New Guinea. Anderson Gallery, VCU. 14 February - 21 March 1984.

The Art of Black Africa. Flint Institute of Art, 8 February - 5 April 1970.

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