Peruvian Tapestries at Toronto

1914, contains a number of unique treasures already.There is the sacred hanging or curtain, from Gondar, taken in the Abyssinian Expedition of 1867, and said to be 800 years old.It has a peculiar design, worked over in silk cord with rich and archaic colours.The director, Mr. C. Currellv, while in Egypt, collected a quantity of palkolithic implements in the Libyan desert, and undertook the makinlg of a reproduction of the great relief of the Punt Expedition in the temple at Deir el Bahri, Thebes.Each stone was moulded separately by a special process with wax and tinfoil, and then coloured from the original by Mr. W

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