Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-02
BOBBEB HAIR A ~
FAD AGES AGO
| Concealed Ears, Short
Skirt STYLES In Old
Egypt
CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-Bobbed hal

CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-Bobbed hair,
n -ssealed ears, short skirts and all
~ other fads and foibles associated
with modern women's styles are as
10 as the pyramids according to the
mute story told by the mummies of
10Th Egypt and Peru in the Field
sMuseuEl.
Wrapped in their pitched shrouds
and encased in sarcophagi covered
swi+h curious paintings and hero
AlvDhs in colors still bright after
rree thousand years or more, these
#mummies, all that was mortal of a
#hnman being of ages ago, today link
he present to a civilization long since
dead.
The daily center of thousand of
curious eyes, for the mummles seem
hold a strange fascination for ev-
~ visitor to the museum, they are
slent spectators of the passing
ID hrongs, but the paintings which
sdorn their resting pieces tell more
nIainlv than words of styles, Gus?
80 and manners of a forgotten age.
u "Whv, ma, they're dressed just
aike the girls we see on Michigan
sBoulevard," exclaimed an aged visi-
or to his wife as he gazed at the
Strange figures adjoining the sarco-
#phagi.
1T appears like they did not wear
i hit more then than they do now"
4he woman answered as the pair NOV
ed away,
d 1t is a far cry from the Nile Of
$Cleopatra's day to the Pacific coast
sAef Peru in South America, but num-
snies from both regions lying almost
within reach of each other now, but
In life ignorant Of each others eX-
sstence. bear graphic evidence Of the
Greatest similarity and proficiency in
many arts at a time when the Morse
men were ravaging all of Southern
Europe and the old world had almost
sunk into barbarism. DR.. j. Alden
Mason, Assistant Curator of Mexican
and South American Anthology at the
Museum has prepared an outline of
he known history Of the Peruvian
mummies.
d Both wore clothes in every weave
known to the modern textile artist
and in some cases, finer than are
dunlicated TODAY by the best mechan-
deal means and the most skilled ar
asans. Their pottery IS unsurpass-
Led even today in its type and their
work in gold and copper challenges
Ahe modern craftsman. Unlike the
Egyptians, the Peruvians used no
process of embalming, but so dry
were the sands of certain of their
Desserts that the dry bodies with their
"a Qp;ngs around them. have been
alds1red perfectly to this day with
Nh objects placed around them.
Near the town of Ancon on the
Coast of Peru was found the great
est cemetery of these people. A
great desert waste, no evidence of
DccupatiOn is seen on the surface.
81 ven when the first Spanish con-
d Ierer passed this way in 1888 ev-
&ry vestage of human occupation
pad entirely disappeared and the loca-
zion Of the town was quite forgotten
III was not until about seventy years
ago that the first graves were discov-
#red and for half a century they have
yielded fortunes to treasure seekers
Rho despoiled them to recover the
Golden ornaments left beside the
bodies.
And now the mummies of both of
these peoples tell of strange similari-
ties in style, adornment, manners and
3ndustries to those of the present
Generation. 1t is a linking of the past
f. the present which holds a peculiar
attraction for the mummies, living in
y silent state, are the most popular
exhibit for the thousands of visitors
who daily crowd the museum.