Model Type
	weaving
Description
	MFA website: his wooden model scene depicts a group of weavers. There are four figures attached to a wooden base. Three of the figures are kneeling and one is standing. They all wear white kilts and short, bag-like wigs painted black. Their skin is painted a drab yellow, suggesting they are to be taken as female. The eyes are detailed in black and white. Arms are carved as separate components from the body and are attached by pegs. The standing figure's hands are indicated merely by holds in the forepart of the arms, in this case to hold stick-like needles for weaving flax fibers that would likely be supplied by the kneeling figure immediately behind her into thread. Figures are attached to the base by thin pegs. The rear figures likely work at a loom, which was probably included in the scene and attached to the base by some or all of the remaining two pegs and one empty hole in the base.
Site
	el-Bersheh
Tomb
	10A
Burial
	Djehutinakht
Date
	Late 11th to early 12th Dyn.
Ref. for dating
	Freed-etal-2009, App. B
Museum
	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession number
	21.414
Material
	wood
References (Bibliography)
	D'Auria-etal-1988 , p. 113, Cat Num 43, fig. 63
	Freed-etal-2009 , Fig. 123, pp. 163,4
Museum Online Record Card
	http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-scene-of-weavers-143707
Links to Images and Other Refs
	../IMG/BMFA-21-414-s.jpg

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