valk ; mummie ; valkmummie ; dierenmummie The conical body tapers towards a pointed caudal end with dummy feet. The head is well modelled and the face covered by a cartonnage mask moulded in gesso over coarse linen; the linen is visible through damaged spots at the right eyebrow, the bill (where the gesso is completely missing), and the throat. The mask is cream-coloured with details in black (irises, markings around the eyes) and red (details of the bill, rims of the eyes, dotted line on the throat, swastikas on the jaws). The mask is surrounded by the striated lappets of a divine wig made of doubled strips of linen, alternating natural and dark brown; the back of the wig is lost and instead the head is covered by a crumpled layer of plain linen. There are remains of horizontal strips of linen under the throat. Otherwise the body is wrapped in a single sheet of medium-fine natural linen (warp-faced tabby weave, about 12 x 28 threads/cm2) which shows a join along the centre of the back and over the soles of the dummy feet. The upper body, however, is much damaged and shows the irregular layers of interior wrappings of similar quality (partly added during a modern restoration, fixed by numerous concentric windings of thin yarn). There are several black and dark brown stains and some shiny patches on the exterior sheet.

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