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360 open, and neither eyelashes nor eyebrows are marked. The next and last mask is very well preserved, and shows us a bearded face. Here the nose is thin and long, running in a straight line from the forehead. The closed eyes are large, and the mouth also. The beard is well given and particularly the moustaches, the ends of which are turned up like two crescents. There is no doubt that all these masks were intended for portraits, and it seems they were only placed on the faces of men. They were probably made after death. According to Professor Petrie the date of the three graves is about 1150

Though this closes the list of funeral masks in Europe, it is well to add that they have also been found in Siberia, Phoenicia, Nineveh, Egypt, and Peru. Messrs Klementz and Adrianov found masks with burnt human and animal bones, copper and bone objects, in some tumuli near Minusinsk. They were made of plaster; and along with Mongoloid types with prominent cheekbones and small, narrow eyes were others with very regular European features. All the masks were the size of life and painted red with a colour that has