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Happy Hippo

Number on Map

42

Artist

Nyasha Mabika

Material

Polished Springstone

Installation Date

November 30, 2024

The Happy Hippo sculpture was created using springstone from Zimbabwe. This sculpture was exhibited at the ZimArt Rice lake Gallery, just outside of Peterborough. The owner, Fran Fearnley retired in the fall of 2023, closing her gallery permanently. She donated the Happy Hippo to the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. The Happy Hippo was part of the Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition 2024 and was installed in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest in November 2024.

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Land Acknowledgment

We would like to acknowledge that we are located on ancestral lands, the traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabe covered by the Williams Treaties. This area, known to the Anishinaabe as “Gidaaki”, has been inhabited for thousands of years – as territories for hunting, fishing, gathering and growing food.


For thousands of years Indigenous people have been the stewards of this place. The intent and spirit of the treaties that form the legal basis of Canada bind us to share the land “for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow”.

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Location:

297 College Drive
Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0
Tel:

(705) 457-3555

Email:

info@haliburtonsculptureforest.ca

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