. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . , No. 4130). • Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the spinning-women at the Paris Exhibition of 1889. Itwas restored from the paintings in the tomb of Khnumhotpû at Beni-Hasan. 7 Necklaces of seeds have been found in the tombs of Abydos, Thebes, and Gebelên. Of these 58 THE NILE AND EGYPT. the Weapons, at least among the nobility, were an indispensable part of costume. Most of them were forhand-to-hand fighting : sticks, clubs, lancesfurnished with a sharpened bone or stonepoint,2 axes of flint,3 sabres and clubs ofbone or wood variou
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . , No. 4130). • Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the spinning-women at the Paris Exhibition of 1889. Itwas restored from the paintings in the tomb of Khnumhotpû at Beni-Hasan. 7 Necklaces of seeds have been found in the tombs of Abydos, Thebes, and Gebelên. Of these 58 THE NILE AND EGYPT. the Weapons, at least among the nobility, were an indispensable part of costume. Most of them were forhand-to-hand fighting : sticks, clubs, lancesfurnished with a sharpened bone or stonepoint,2 axes of flint,3 sabres and clubs ofbone or wood variously shaped, pointedor rounded at the end, with blunt or sharpblades,—inoffensive enough to look at,but, wielded by a vigorous hand,sufficient to break an arm, crush inthe ribs, or smash a skull with alldesirable The plain ortriple curved bow was the favouriteweapon for attack at a distance,6but in addition to this they hadthe sling, the javelin, and a missilealmost forgotten nowadays, the boomerang ; we have no proof, however,. MAN WEARING WIG AND Schweinfurth has identified, among others, the Cassia àbsus, L., a weed of the Soudan whose seedsare sold in the drug bazaar at Cairo and Alexandria under the name of shishm, as a remedy, whichis in great request among the natives, for ophthalmia (Les Dernières Découvertes botaniques dans lesanciens tombeaux de lEgypte, in the Bidletin de lInstitut égyptien, 2nd series, vol. vi. p. 257). Forthe necklaces of pebbles, cf. Maspero, Guide du visiteur, pp. 270, 271, No. 4129. A considerablenumber of these pebbles, particularly those of strange shape, or presenting a curious combinationof colours, must have been regarded as amulets or fetishes by their Egyptian owners ; analogouscases, among other peoples, have been pointed out by E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, vol. ii. , et seq., 205, et seq. For the imitations of cowries and shells in blue enamelled terra-cothi, , Guide du visiteur, p. 271
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