LITTLE ROCK — "Ankh-en-orange-en" is a dry subject - the name of a withered doll that helps teach about Egyptian mummies, writes Ron Wolfe in Tuesday's Style section.
The crusty rind of a hollow orange is the mannequin's torso. A shriveled potato makes do for the head, and wrinkled hot dogs take the place of arms and legs. Burial in a white mix of salt and baking soda has done the same for Ankh-en-orange-en as the hot sands of ancient Egypt did for the earliest mummies. All out of juice, Ankh-en-orange-en has become, well - a good question.
"Is a mummy an artifact?" Louise Palermo, curator of education, asks her class of 14 docents-in-training at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock. Their job is to be ready for pretty much anything people might ask about the museum's biggest-ever exhibit, "World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed," which will open Sept. 25.
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