Hippopotamus in Bronze on Blue Armadillo The jacket is 4 inches

The jacket is 4 inches tall

Materials: Korean & Japanese papers

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989

The body of the dress is made from a Japanese paper embedded with strands of shiny rayon fibres

with couched stitches and glass beads decorating the neckline and the bottom of the tabard

Hippopotamus in Bronze on Blue Armadillo The jacket is 4 inchesOne of the funniest things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions, by artists who had never seen the real thing. So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong, with little tiny heads! I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools. The