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The Museum Gazette 



The Lama in the New World represents the camel of 

 the Old {Lama nuanacos and Lama vicugna). 



The lama, with its near relatives, the Vicuna and Alpacca, 

 are in many respects like camels. They differ in not possess- 

 ing humps and in having the pad of the foot more divided, 

 whilst the toes are furnished with strong claws. These 

 peculiarities adapt them for the rocky districts which they 

 inhabit. They have also much thicker fleeces than camels 

 have and are thus adapted to cold mountainous regions. 

 Like camels, they can endure hunger and thirst, and perform 

 long journeys bearing heavy burdens. The moral nature 

 of the two is also very similar ; they are both tractable to 

 a certain extent, but bad-tempered and exceedingly obstinate. 

 Both have the disgusting habit of spitting from the nose 

 at those who annoy or oppress them. 



The tomb and mummy of Queen Teie, the mother of 

 Amen-hotep IV. (Eighteenth Dynasty, fourteenth century 

 b.c.) has been recently discovered at Thebes by Mr. Theo- 

 dore M. Davis. From the description of the Times corres- 

 pondent we read " there was no sarcophagus, but a huge 

 catafalque had been erected over the mummy of the Queen. 

 Inside and outside alike it was thickly plated with gold and 

 engraved with the names and titles of Teie and her son, 

 as well as with representations of their adoration of the solar 

 disc." The coffin " is a superb example of the jeweller's 

 work. The wood of which it was composed is entirely 

 covered with a frame of gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, cornelian 

 and green glass. The mummy itself was wrapped from head 

 to foot in sheets of gold. We have the head of the heretic 

 Queen herself in Egyptian alabaster, and with the eyebrows 

 and eyeballs represented by inlays of lapis lazuli and obsidian. 

 The face is evidently a portrait, and a very beautiful portrait 

 it is. It is that of a woman at once masterful and engaging, 

 but apart from the lips there is little that is Egyptian about it, 

 and the delicate sub-aquiline curve of the nose is European 

 rather than African. 



