Miniature Folk Art Coffin Sarcophagus collection Jim Linderman








A miniature Folk Art Coffin or Sarcophagus said to have been made by a sailor who worked with the earliest British examinations of mummies.  The first modern day investigations began in 1901, which is probably where the date for this small folk art sculpture should be set.  Original paint.  Notice amateur "hieroglyphic writing" around paper figure on the left.  The paper remnants are original, and I think the mummy is as well.  I haven't unwrapped him, but something is in there.  

19th century handmade coffin with mummy collection Jim Linderman

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