TAA i.3.28.3.verso

^x = plan, and negs. 597, 696, 697, and 695.

(1) “In the male ostrich, the long feathers of the tail, and wings 

are white, and the short feathers of the body are jet black;

while the tail and wing feathers of the female are white, 

tinged with a duskey^sic gray" <(W.P.P., Ency. Brit., XIV^th. Ed., vol.9, p.131).> It is possible then that the brown 

feathers here were once black.

          The plain tapering handle, 95 cents. in length, diminishing 

gradually in thickness towards its upper end like the <papyrus peduncle or> flowering stem, of a papyrus is surmounted by a conventionalized papyrus-umbel: 

the rays of the umbel, represented en masse, terminate in rich 

downward curves, and incised upon the axial base of the umbel 

are the bracts. The butt end of the handle ends in another 

conventional papyrus-umbel, but reversed and of much simpler

form with the bracts and the rays simply incised upon the gold. 

The upper and lower ends of the shaft are annulated, suggesting x[?]/<a> binding.