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THE KTHNOLOGICAL COURT. 



Egyptian Ourio^;. 



Mummy Cloth, Idols, &c. 



Mummy Cloth, Idols, &c. 



Baskets, Fruit Trays, Spears, Crocodile Harpoons, Antelopes' Horns, Native Dress, 

 Drum, Brass Tumblers, Harp, Dhobb Sahara, Guitar, Arrows, Double Drum, Meat 

 Preserving Basket, Snout of Saw Fish, Idols, Fly Whisp. 



Opening from this Court is 



THE EGYPTIAN TOMB, 



constructed to represent an Egyi)tiau Tomb, and has been erected by Mr. John Hennings. 

 The ceiling is taken from Owen Jones' work. The Grammar of Ornament. The wall on 

 the north side depicts a funeral boat passing a river or lake on its way to the entombment 

 of the body contained in the vessel. This sketch is taken from George Ebers' work, The Burial 

 Place of Forty Kings. The west wall gives a representation of a double figure of Anubis, a 

 wolf or dog-headed god, watching before a sepulchre which is securely locked and bolted. This 

 is taken from a German work by H. Kobb. On either side of the central group are portraits of 

 daughters of the King attending the rites in lionour of the dead. They wear the lotus-shaped 

 wand and elaborate head-dress according to their social station on earth. The southern wall 



