Hippopotamus Leather Shield

Unidentified Oromo maker

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late 19th century

Hippopotamus hide

Overall: 12 × 23 in. (30.5 × 58.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joel Whiting

165.33.15647

Geography

Place Made: Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Africa

Period

19th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Course History

COLT 73.4, Violence, Ayo Coly, Winter 2015

THEA 23, AAAS 54, Topics in African Theater and Performance, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2015

Exhibition History

The Art of Weapons: Selections from the African Collection, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 26, 2014 -March 13, 2016.

Publication History

Ugochukwu C. Nzewi, The Art of Weapons, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2014, checklist no. 62

Provenance

Collected by Joel Whiting, Asmara, Eritrea (formerly Ethiopia), early 1960's; given to present collection, 1965.

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