Mummified Falcon

16.11.06.154

Information

Mummified falcon (or similar raptor) wrapped in bandages and bound together with numerous concentric windings of papyrus strips. Head is exposed. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Bindings are fragmenting, damaged to beak, some blueish white residue at certain points on the back of the mummy. 16 November 1906 register entry: "154. Mummied bird."