Mummy-making in California
Mummy-making in California. Preparing for the innocent curio-hunter and carrying out an ingenious fraud: the making of artificial mummies for sale. 1. making an imitation mummy at Los Angeles; 2. a mummy in the making (probably intended to imitate an Egyptian mummy; 3. and 4. partly finished mummies; 5. a group of imitation mummies and fake Indian relics
Picture No
14115588
Media ID
46828506
Size
3997px x 5904px
(7.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans
Source
Photographs by George Grantham Bain in The Sketch, 29th May 1907, p195
Date
1907
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