A personal journal about teaching the Bible and ancient Near Eastern history/theology/religion/archaeology to university students in New Orleans, and whatever else happens to be on my mind.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Chicken Mummy
As part of my Religions of the Ancient Near East course at Xavier, I have students make mummies. Some made mummies out of fish, some from onions and potatoes. My mummy was from a chicken. Here it is in process: We pack them in salt at the beginning of the semester, and at the end we wrap them in linen dipped in a flour/water/glue mixture. I had two chicken mummies from before when I taught the class, only they were Katrina flood water victims.
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