Show Tombs of Mummies In Desert On the desert of Paracas are tombs of mummies seated with knees to chin and swathed in volu volu- voluminous voluminous voluminous minous folds of cloth On the high plateau of Bolivia mummies are en en- encased encased encased cased not in cloth but in neatly woven baskets made of the tortora reed of which the famous Lake Titi- Titi caca balsas are made The mummy baskets usually have a small open open- opening opening opening ing from which the grisly mummy face peers out In the quaint little museum at Valparaiso Chile are areto areto areto to be seen an earlier type of mum mum- mummy mummy mummy my suggestive of the Egyptian the Egyptian the only South American type not in a sitting position They are crudely masked laid out like very early Egyptian forms and filled with mud |