On this page Mace mentions that Carter unwrapped the five sticks - including the gold statuette stick, the silver statuette stick, bows and beetle wing sticks. He also refers to the fans, bows and arrows placed between the third and fourth shrine, wrongly giving their position as between the second and third shrine.

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Jan. 25

Statue & Sticks.

Breasted & Gardiner over.

All outermost shrine now taken apart. Doors

of second Shrine removed & part of cornice.

Frame of third Shrine door all in one piece.

Jan. 26

Stayed at home discussing action to be

taken after receipt of Maxwell's letter.

Jan. 27

Continued work on statue.

Jan. 28

Press day.

Jan. 29.

Market day.

Jan. 30

M^r and M^rs Newberry started working on pall.

In the afternoon, in presence of the archaeologists

of the Western Bank, Carter unwrapped the

five sticks - including the gold statuette

stick, the silver statuette stick, bows, ~~bettl~~

beetle wing sticks etc. The statuettes on the

gold and silver sticks were very definitely those

of a young boy.

Jan. 31

All morning on statue.

Carter finished removal of second shrine. Between

this and third, on S & W sides there were

long ostrich feather fans, and on S & N sides

bows and arrows. (Note exactly tomorrow)

In the afternoon with Harkness and Lythgoe

had a conference on the situation and decided

to wire Maxwell to come up again.