introduction BEGINNINGS: THE PHOEBE HEARST ERA (1902-1920) THE PHOEBE HEARST COLLECTIONS GUATEMALA NATIVE CALIFORNIA ALASKAN ESKIMO PHILIPPINES ANCIENT NORTH AMERICA ANCIENT PERU ANCIENT egypt Predynastic Period Early Dynastic Period Old Kingdom New Kingdom/Third Intermediate Ptolemaic/Roman Periods 01. Crocodile mummy, linen and plaster 02. Canopic box; wood with paint and gesso 03. Mummy mask; cartonnage (linen and gesso), paint, gilding 04. Mummy portrait of a woman, tempera paint on wood ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN TRANSITION (1920-1945) EXPANSION (1945-1960) CULMINATION (1960-1980) RECENT YEARS (1980-2001) RECENT ACQUISITIONS Mummy mask; cartonnage (linen and gesso), paint, gilding Fayum, Tebtunis; Ptolemaic Collected by George Reisner. 6–20107 This mask would have been placed directly over the face of a wrapped mummy. The generalized features are so stylized that one cannot tell the sex of the deceased.