The funeral bowls placed at the feet of the bodies varied
in form and material. Some of these were of plain black and white
pottery, others were coated with gold, silver, or mother-of-pearl.
The bowls apparently had once contained food. In all there were
two golden bowls, four of silver, one of pearl and one of pottery.
Each mummy was wound with as much care as was ever bestowed on the
Egyptian royal dead. The woven wrappings were coated with pitch and
beneath them were colored cotton cloths, affording proof of a high
civilization. The richest treasures of the dead were the
breastplates and necklaces found on each. These astounded the young
investigators.
These plates and beads had been strung on deer sinews, which, not
having been protected by pitch, were now only lines of dust. But,
lying on the breast of each there was invariably a "body scraper,"
(as Major Honeywell afterwards termed them) of gold, silver or
mother-of-pearl. Mother-of-pearl discs were the commonest neck
decoration. Of these the boys discovered four.
On three of the bodies were pierced pearl bead necklaces.
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