[194] Wooden instruments have been found which were used for the pleating of linen stuffs. One of these, which is now in the museum of Florence, is figured in Wilkinson (Manners and Customs, vol. i. p. 185). The heavy and symmetrical folds which are thus obtained are found, as we shall see, in the drapery of Greek statues of the archaic period.
[195] Notice du Musée de Boulak, No. 770.
[196] Ibid., No. 769.
[197] Notice, No. 793. These two people were called Nefer-hotep and Tenteta. The latter is also described as related to Pharaoh.
[198] Notice du Musée de Boulak, No. 768.
[199] Notice, No. 771. This is the person represented in profile in Fig. 47, Vol. I.
[200] Notice, No. 766.
[201] The four last quoted figures belong to the series noticed in the Boulak Catalogue under numbers 757 to 764. The statue reproduced in Fig. [197] has been already shown in profile in Fig. [48], Vol. I.
[202] Gabriel Charmes, Cinq mois au Caire, p. 96.
[203] Wilkinson, Manners and Customs, vol. ii. p. 270.