Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 05, 2013
Transcript:
The paint known as mummy brown, popular with 19th-century artists, was made from powdered Egyptian mummies! Julia Pastrana, a Victorian sideshow performer known as the Apewoman, was finally buried in her home country of Mexico in 2013, 150 years after her death! Wisdom a wild Laysan albatross of the South Pacific, is 62 years old and had her 36th check in February 2013!
So I guess there was never an over supply of “Mummy brown”. As regards the albatross, has anyone seen her birth certificate?