Philippine aborigine, possesses wicked-looking fighting 

 knives and other weapons. The Mohammedan Moros, 

 also, are evidently a tribe of warriors. Their suits 

 of armor are finely made and their cannon, varying 

 in size from that of a pistol upward, are elaborately 

 ornamented. 



The islands of the Pacific, about which so much is 

 written at the present day, are well represented in 

 Joseph N. Field Hall and would well repay a careful 

 examination. 



The Egyptian collection is to be found on the 

 ground floor. The Museum is indebted for the material 

 exhibited in this section to the generosity and the 

 efforts of Edward E. Ayer, a trustee of the Institution, 

 who collected it during several visits to Egypt. 

 Here is a different race and a different civilization 

 to those we have already seen. Today, with the 

 exception of the Pyramids, the Sphinx and a few 

 ruins, nothing remains of a people that in its day 

 was the most cultured on earth. Life beyond the 

 grave was one of the chief tenets of their religion. 

 Indeed, in their passion for immortality, they came 

 near to achieving immortality for their mortal bodies ; 

 for here we find bodies brought across thousands of 

 miles and thousands of years with the paint as fresh 

 on their coffins as when they were buried in the days 

 of long ago in the land of sun and sand, and without 

 a trace or sign of bodily corruption. In many cases 

 their names are known. Here lies a lady named Tinto 

 who lived at Thebes a thousand years before Christ 

 was born. Not far off is a lady called Men, who was 

 related to the Theban priests of Ammon. Pidi-Mut, 

 who was for years a door-keeper of a temple at Thebes, 

 rests close by. The process of mummification was not 



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