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Petrie, William M. Flinders
Report of the Committee, consisting of F. Galton, Pittrivers, Flower, A. MacAlister, F. W. Rudler, R. Stuart Poole and Bloxam, appointed for the purpose of procuring, with the help of Flinders Petrie, racial photographs from the ancient Egyptian pictures — London, [1887]

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on photographs from ancient egtptian pictures and sculptures. 13

tained. And I am glad to bear that these identifications have since been
■withdrawn.

The highly interesting and important bearing of these Egyptian
records on the early stages of classic history has been shown by Chabas,
de Rouge, and others, and with interesting detail by Lenormant, in some
of the last studies of his life, and taken into account by Gladstone in his
'Homeric Synchronism,' but the supreme value of Egyptian lore in this
regard has not been adequately recognised at our own universities.

The fair complexions and blue eyes of the Libyan kindreds declare
them as sons of Japhet. Like the Hittites, they are involved in the
Egyptian destinies, first in war, then in alliance, and at last in marriage.
We may hope to know far more about these peoples. In their region
French scientific inquirers have been making good research. The culti-
vated side-locks of the Libu and Mashauasha are very remarkable.
Herodotus says that the Maxyans let their hair grow in a long lock on
the right side of their head, but shave it on the left. This custom the
Egyptians observed in childhood, and tin _— jateLgi'
carefully developed in the royal children. E
notice the front faces which rarely occur, ETn SoJW^
row of captives led by Rameses III. at Mi =-JZ
Tahennu fronting us, and observe that thi E ^yiHY^
head, forming a fringe, but the side-locks EE^ ^#IIV^
fully plaited and trained in a long reflex (
two form together the exact form of an in-* E_

Among our examples of these westerr = r-
mentioned. I will therefore pass on to thi —— a>
to the map, and these we begin to find in E_ 4—'
Secondly. The Southerns:— — o

These we find under the general heads E—^ w
vast extension of the former term we an =_ (~
since our Cushites are certainly of Afric; = / \
very strongly marked, as, for instance, in i E—
heads from the tombs of Merenptah and R =_ _
In the first it is odd that the hair should E O
the skin is black, the features straight, go< =— L_
suppose that this does not represent red =_ *£i
and it may remind us of a strange race i: E ^- 5
describes as black in complexion but with =— Q
hair,' at Derr, the capital of Nubia; an< =_ / "\
whose hideous light hair and blue eyes ( E
date back to Bosnian forefathers of 360 -
' immensely proud of their alien blood E_

beautiful.' ('A Thousand Miles on the K 3 ^ ^ c

m

Is it possible that there were really red =~

Moses ? If not, why did the artist paii E. {J
red with black lines ? In fact the sam = ^

in the tomb of Rameses III., while the = q^J
tomb. E.

By Pun we understand, says Brugscl: = n ^ c

Abyssinia and the edges of the Somali E ^ ^

applied the term to the country on botl E. Q

local names which we find before us to-di = ^ ■—

Pun. =~ O

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