How to Make an Egyptian Canopic Jar Statue Part 2
I think we’ll make a little tail and actually you could either make his tail with some cardboard or some tag board or cut up an old cardboard box whatever.
And I think I’m going to kind of fold in here, and we’ll take this right across here. Okay, here we go looking kind of bird like here. Now, let’s kind of round of his head a little bit, so I’m just going to take some paper towels, it’s good padding.
I’m going to go ahead and make a big and actually I think this would make a good wing. I can just make another one just like it. That’s going to be tricky, as long as I’ve got that let’s just put this on here, and may I attach a wing here. Now I turn it around in a minute so you can see it there’s our wing add a little bit more tape.
The mummification process took 70 days. It was quite a long embalming process. First they had to totally dry out the body, so they would remove all the organs first and mummify those and they bring in a lot of salt and the salt absorbs liquid so the body was actually put on a slanted wooden bed, and covered in natron or salt. And all the liquid just kind of drift down the bed and at the bottom of the bed there’s a like a bucket, a container that caught all the liquid that came from the body.
And this was really important because it had to preserve the body in such that the soul which was the Ba that little Ba bird that hovers over the body could find its identical twin the Ka. The mummification process took the 70 days and they spend a lot of time drying out the body. And once it was totally dried out and almost like a leather then they would start the wrapping process and that involved the priests and the magicians would come in and between each layer of linen wrappings they would actually paint on a tar like substance that almost looks like the asphalt that we used in our roads these days. And that would serve as a way of water prepping the mummy because if the mummy got wet at all then that’s how you lose the body because of the moisture starts to get to the mummy, and the body is going to decay.
So what I’m going to do now here is put some Polymer medium on here and start putting my paper towels on here. And you just used this little sponge applicator that you can get in the hardware store. And you want to make sure you use lots of Polymer. Put Polymer on top of the paper towels.
So anyway, you got this dried out body, and they would usually used like saw dusts and wrappings to kind of fill the body so that it actually still look like a body. And then they would start the long process of the wrapping of the mummy, and the magicians and priests had little special magical amulets that would be tucked in each layer of wrapping and different incantations were said to protect the person on his or her journey to the next world.
After the mummy was all wrapped then the artist would set out to decorate the cartonnage and the cartonnage is just the mummy totally wrapped and then painted that’s what is referred to as the cartonnage and then the first case of the mummy’s place in is called the sarcophagus and that also elaborately decorated.
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