The ornament is a statuette, a black figure of a bird.

It had, by that time, acquired a coat of black enamel, so that it looked nothing more than a fairly interesting black statuette.

The archaeologist Gregory Possehl said of the statuette, We may not be certain that she was a dancer, but she was good at what she did and she knew it .

And I've got some exhibits, the boys' guns, one of Cairo's, and a 1,000 bill I was supposed to be bribed with, and this black statuette here that all the fuss was about.