Mummy Day at MGMOA

Photos by Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan

  • Dressed in a pharoah hat, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Docent Dick Trim speaks about the mummification process, as Princess Tutu lays in front of him, during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Tutu was mummified in 332 B.C. in the Faiyum district of Egypt, and was gifted to the Glen Island Museum in 1898, according to https://www.mgmoa-gallery.com/tutu-mummy-cnxk. When that museum went bankrupt, Father Gregory Gerrer purchased Tutu at auction. The MGMOA also has an unidentified mummy from the Roman era.
    Dressed in a pharoah hat, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Docent Dick Trim speaks about the mummification process, as Princess Tutu lays in front of him, during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Tutu was mummified in 332 B.C. in the Faiyum district of Egypt, and was gifted to the Glen Island Museum in 1898, according to https://www.mgmoa-gallery.com/tutu-mummy-cnxk. When that museum went bankrupt, Father Gregory Gerrer purchased Tutu at auction. The MGMOA also has an unidentified mummy from the Roman era.
  • Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art volunteers Eileen Hargrove and Greta Lynn Baxter help Freya McAlvain, 6, and Vaughn Ervin, 6, of Shawnee, respectively, to write their names in hieroglyphics during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Ervin's mother, Rachel Ervin, is also assisting. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
    Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art volunteers Eileen Hargrove and Greta Lynn Baxter help Freya McAlvain, 6, and Vaughn Ervin, 6, of Shawnee, respectively, to write their names in hieroglyphics during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Ervin's mother, Rachel Ervin, is also assisting. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
  • Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art volunteer Gerry Pfeil explains how to make mummies from popsicle sticks and yarn during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
    Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art volunteer Gerry Pfeil explains how to make mummies from popsicle sticks and yarn during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
  • University of Tulsa Library Dean Bob Pickering tells about how papyrus was made and about other items used in ancient Egypt, as Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Director Dane Pollei looks on, during Mummy Day at the museum in Shawnee on Oct. 26. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
    University of Tulsa Library Dean Bob Pickering tells about how papyrus was made and about other items used in ancient Egypt, as Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Director Dane Pollei looks on, during Mummy Day at the museum in Shawnee on Oct. 26. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
  • Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art volunteer Kadence Jenkins ties a scarab bracelet for William McKee, 8, of Shawnee, as Zoe Miller, 7, also of Shawnee, looks on, during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
    Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art volunteer Kadence Jenkins ties a scarab bracelet for William McKee, 8, of Shawnee, as Zoe Miller, 7, also of Shawnee, looks on, during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
  • Dressed as Cleopatra, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Director of Development Sylwia Partyka hands out string backpacks during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
    Dressed as Cleopatra, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Director of Development Sylwia Partyka hands out string backpacks during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
  • Smelling embalming spices from Egypt
    Smelling embalming spices from Egypt
  • Making mummies
    Making mummies
  • Writing in hieroglyphics
    Writing in hieroglyphics
  • Writing in hieroglyphics
    Writing in hieroglyphics
  • Writing in hieroglyphics
    Writing in hieroglyphics
  • Writing in hieroglyphics
    Writing in hieroglyphics
  • Writing in hieroglyphics
    Writing in hieroglyphics
  • Making mummies
    Making mummies
  • Items from Ancient Egypt
    Items from Ancient Egypt
  • Items from Ancient Egypt
    Items from Ancient Egypt
  • Making Egyptian collars with Marianne Pickering & Lynn Pollei
    Making Egyptian collars with Marianne Pickering & Lynn Pollei
  • Making Egyptian collars with Marianne Pickering & Lynn Pollei
    Making Egyptian collars with Marianne Pickering & Lynn Pollei
  • Making mummies
    Making mummies
  • Making mummies
    Making mummies
  • Making mummies
    Making mummies
  • Making mummies
    Making mummies
  • Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
    Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
  • Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
    Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
  • Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
    Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
  • Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
    Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
  • Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
    Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
  • Viewing Princess Tutu
    Viewing Princess Tutu
  • Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
    Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
  • Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
    Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
  • Smelling embalming spices from Egypt
    Smelling embalming spices from Egypt
  • Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
    Docent Dick Trim - Mummy Tales
    Dressed in a pharoah hat, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Docent Dick Trim speaks about the mummification process, as Princess Tutu lays in front of him, during Mummy Day at the museum on Oct. 26. Tutu was mummified in 332 B.C. in the Faiyum district of Egypt, and was gifted to the Glen Island Museum in 1898, according to https://www.mgmoa-gallery.com/tutu-mummy-cnxk. When that museum went bankrupt,...

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