Few museums are without a pair of leather sandals, or a specimen of mummy braces with ends of stamped leather bearing the effigy of a god, a Pharaoh, a hieroglyphic legend, a rosette, or perhaps all combined.

These little relics are not older than the time of the priest-kings, or the earlier Bubastites.

It is to the same period that we must attribute the great cut-leather canopy in the Gizeh Museum.

The catafalque upon which the mummy was laid when transported from the mortuary establishment to the tomb, was frequently adorned with a covering made of stuff or soft leather.

Sometimes the sidepieces hung down, and sometimes they were drawn aside with bands, like curtains, and showed the coffin.
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