. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . M As I believe this to be a most important ethnograpic indication, and one which pointsto the vast body of the Egyptian people, I subjoin four additional heads of priests (, 130, 131, 132,) from a tomb at Thebes of the XVIIIth dynasty. We are forcibly im-pressed with the delicate features and oblique eye of the left-hand personage, and with theruder but characteristic outline of the other
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . M As I believe this to be a most important ethnograpic indication, and one which pointsto the vast body of the Egyptian people, I subjoin four additional heads of priests (, 130, 131, 132,) from a tomb at Thebes of the XVIIIth dynasty. We are forcibly im-pressed with the delicate features and oblique eye of the left-hand personage, and with theruder but characteristic outline of the other figures, in which the prominent face, thoughstrongly drawn, is essentially Egyptian.^™ Fig. 129. Fia. 130. Fig. 131. Fig. The annexed outlines (Fig. 133), which presentmore pleasing examples of the same ethnographic cha-racter, are copied from the tomb of Titi, at Thebes, anddate with the remote era of Thotmes They repre-sent five fowlers in the act of drawing their net over aflock of birds. The long, flowing hair is in keeping withthe facial traits, which latter are also well characterizedin the subjoined drawings (Figs. 134, 135, 136, 137),derived from monuments of different epochs and lo-calities. Fig. 133.
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