Wah

Excavating tombs in Egypt 17 years ago, diggers of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art found the mummy, swathed in heavy wrappings of linen, of a young man of Thebes named Wah. Wearing a gilded and painted mask, a red linen shawl, the mummy of Wah made a bright and cheerful appearance in its clean, neat bandages. The diggers took it back to the museum where it was placed on exhibition.

Last week it appeared that Wah was even more interesting inside than outside. Following the lead of other museums, Director Herbert Eustis Winlock had ordered X-rays made of the Metropolitan's mummy collection. The plates showed that inside its wrappings the mummy of Wah was wearing a necklace of spherical beads, apparently gold or silver; another necklace of larger beads, apparently of silver; a third one of amethyst, carnelian or faience and a fourth which appeared to be of cylindrical stone beads. Other ornaments were a sort of bib and two wristlets, apparently of faience; three scarabs, apparently of stone, and an oval seal ring. Unwrapping a mummy without destroying it is ticklish business, but Director Winlock plans to try it in order to get at these treasures.

The X-rays also disclosed, entombed among Wah's voluminous wrappings, two mice.

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