When we see the mummified remains of Egyptian royalty with wavy, auburn hair as in the case of the mother of Akenaten, queen Tiye (1, 2), it is well to understand something about the nature of African/Negro/black hair. To begin with, that one have straight or wavy hair (2) does not automatically mean they are white as blacks with straight hair, as in the case of Michael Jackson (6) have had it treated. The original, natural form is as such hair occurs as a globe coiffure in the case of Michael Jackson (5), queen Tiye (1), or the Australian aborigine (3) or young lady from Papua, New Guinea (4). And black hair (1, 5, 6) when bleached by the sun (note dark roots in 3 and 4) appears auburn along its length (3, 4). In mummies, having been treated with the preservative, natron, that chemical bleaches hair turning it also black to auburn (2)...art, art history, Paul Marc Washington, paleoneolithic@yahoo.com

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