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Carter No.: 050xx

Handlist description: Elaborately ornamented stick

Card/Transcription No.: 050xx-1


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Elaborately ornamented stick Crook part made separately & glued(?) on. Surface of stick covered with raw hide, now become black & pitch like, & oozed out. To this was glued the decoration of coloured barks. a. Bands of geometrical patterns in coloured bark. Both cartouches of Tutankhamen on top of knob and on sides of it. b. Band of plain yellow bark. c. 4 cartouches, supported by kneeling figures in central band between equal sized bands of geometrical patterns: all in coloured bark. d. Feather pattern in yellow bark, with blue, green, yellow and red feathering of beetle elytrae. Down one side band of inscription in yellow bark, with both cartouches of Tutankhamen.

Card no. 050xx-1 relating to Carter no. 050xx
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