BIMANA. 



Museum (19, Egyptian Sal'oon, in Synopsis, 1839, ed. 38th), is here 

 given (fig. 192). 



The general expression of the physiognomy of this celebrated statue 

 is calm and dignified ; the forehead is somewhat flat ; the eyes widely 

 separated from each other ; the nose is elevated, narrow, long, and gently 

 arched, with spreading nostrils ; the ears are high, the lips large, with 

 the margin broad, flat, and turned out, with sharp edges, points in which 

 the pure Japetic model is deviated from. 



In Case Z. Z. 2 (Egyptian Room), is the mummy of a female, named 

 Mautemmen, a priestess attached to the worship of Amoun. The back 

 part of the head is exposed, and the bandages which cover the face are 

 so thin and close as to render the general style of the features very 

 discernible. The hair is short, of a dark auburn, or reddish brown, and 

 inclined to be wavy ; the nose is thin, elevated, and apparently aquiline ; 

 the chin prominent ; the face oval. 



The fresco paintings in the British Museum, illustrative of the 

 domestic habits of the Egyptians, give us portraits both of males and 

 females ; the latter, for the most part, wearing large ear-rings, and their 

 hair in long tresses, or platted locks, down the shoulders and back ; 

 as we see, also, on some of the sarcophagi, and as the wig of human 

 hair, from a tomb at Thebes, is arranged : some of the men are repre- 

 sented as bald, or nearly so. The countenances, as will be seen by 

 the following outlines (figs. 193, 194, 195), do not appear to be referable 

 to the Negro, though, at the same time, they do not quite correspond with 

 the standard models of the Japetic type : the complexion is copper red. 



194 



195 



As the animals, in these fresco paintings, are admirably delineated, 

 it may reasonably be inferred that the faces of the men and women are 

 faithful national representations also. 



With respect to the skulls obtained from mummies preserved in the 

 catacombs of Thebes, and other places, though Soemmerring, out of four 

 examined by him, found two, which, in the extent of space occupied by 

 the temporal muscle, seemed to approach the Negro form, still the 

 united testimonies of Cuvier, Lawrence, Denon, and others, concur in 



