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limbs. In some cases the genital organs were pushed against one 
or other thigh and wrapped with the Imib, i.e., not separately. 
In one case the penis was flattened out against the perinaeum so 
that at a casual glance the organs seemed to be missing. In 
several cases the pubic region was packed in both men and women 
— sometnnes with cloth, sometimes with mud. In one instance 
the scrotum was a large hollow bag — possibly the result of hernia 
— the orifice, but not the cavity,of which was plugged with mud 
derived from the packing-material of the thigh. 
In only two or three cases amongst the women were the remains 
of the pudenda — the labia majora — allowed to remain in their 
natural position. In most cases the skin, while still soft and 
flexible, was pushed backward toward the anus so as to form an 
apron covering the rima pudendi. This curious procedure gives 
the body a strange appearance : at first sight I thought that the 
operation of infibulation (such as is practised in the Sudan at the 
present day) had been employed, but in this I was mistaken. This 
attempt to hide the pudendal cleft was also found in the mummy 
of a girl, eight years of age. 
VegetaJjle substances found in or on the mummies. 
In addition to the garlands of leaves and flowers placed outside 
the wrappings of mummies, flowers and other vegetable substances 
are often found amongst the wrappings, on the surface of the 
body or inside the mummy. 
In the case of the mummy of a priest flowers were found 
wrapped around every finger and toe in contact wàth the skin 
and a complete flower on a long stalk was placed alongside each 
arm near the elbow. Some of the flowers from the toes were 
examined by Mr. Percy E. Newberry, who identified then as the 
petals of Nymphaea stellata, Savigny. 
