Back in the 1970's a candy manufacturer used to sell minature ones. At least
an anthropoogist from the "Police Accelerate" program showed me one (an
anthropology course for police gaining their college degree in Suffolk
County, NY)  Probably from the "horror" film genre, like what the Pinewoods
Studio is famous for, a new "Pinewood West" studio on the East End of Long
Island,. Apparently, among the Montauk natives the name Pharoah was used a
bit. Early explorers related that the summer heat and the sand dunes
reminded them of Arabia, perhaps where the name came from. The Montauk Club
in Brooklyn, a important landmark built in the style of Venice architecture,
depicts the contact between natives and Europeans in terracotta relief in
the "entablature". Governor McKinley was honored there shortly before
becoming President. A beautiful wooden sculpture of a banjo player is in its
stairway, perhaps depicting an African-American like William Sydney Mount's
depiction of a banjo player on canvas.


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Subject: Re: word query


> Hate that feeling.  Are you looking for "ushabtis"?
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>     Did you ver find the need for a word but it just wasn't there when
> you wanted  it?
> Tip of your tongue as they say.  What the hell is the word for those
> small - 6 or 7 inches- long,
>  often crude,  glazed pottery likenesses of  mummy cases?
> Logodaedalians and logophiles to the fore!
>     Thanx
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