“ Fig. 134 is the head of a weaver, from the paintings in the very ancient tomb of Roti
and Menoph at Beni-Hassan, wherein the same cast of countenance is reiterated without
number.272
“ Fig. 135, a wine-presser, is also from Beni-Hassan, and dates with Osortasen, more than
2000 years before the Christian era.273
** Fig. 136 is a cook, who, in the tomb of Rameses IV, at Thebes, is represented with
many others in the active duties of his vocation.274
“ Fig. 137. I have selected this head as an exaggerated or caricatured illustration of
the same type of physiognomy. It is one of the goat-herds painted in the tomb of Koti, at
Beni-Hassan.275
“ The most recent of these last four venerable monuments of art dates at least 1450
years before our era: the oldest belongs to unchronicled times; and the same physical
characters are common on the Nubian and Egyptian monuments down to the Ptolemaic and
Roman epochs.
“ The peculiar head-dress of the Egyptians often greatly modifies, and in some degree conceals,
their characteristic features; and may, at first sight, lead to the impression that the
priests possessed a physiognomy of a distinct or peculiar kind. Such, however, was not
the case, as a little observation will prove. Take, for example, the four following draw-
F ig . 138. F ig. 139.
ings, from a Theban tomb, in which two mourners (Fig. 138) have head-dresses, and two
priests (Fig. 139) are without them. Are not the national characteristics unequivocally
manifest in them all ? ” 276
Such, textually, are Morton’s words, with the sole exception that,
while preserving his references, we have substituted our own numerals:
but, for the express object of removing, once for all, current impressions
of Egyptian affinity with Negro races, we intercalate a relevant series
of illustrations, and group into one page various heads from the Crania
JEgyptiaca — five of which (Figs. 140—144) appertain to females
of different classes, and two (Figs. 145 and 146) to males; indicating
underneath each the vocations in which they are severally represented
on the monuments. Apart from their facial angles and high-caste
configuration, it is their long hair to which the attention of Negro-
philism is more particularly invited.
A Rustic-wrestler.
A Mourner.
F ig. 142,
A Lady coiffée.
F ig. 143.
A Mourner.
F ig. 144.
A Female Athlete.
F ig . 146.