Animal skins from human burials, dated 2nd and 3rd millennium _BC, including haired skin bags lined with cloth, provided evidence of ox, goat, and sheep, the cloth being made of plant fiber, possibly flax. Two-thirds of the skin samples had evidence of vegetable tanning. Of 18 samples of livestock hair or skin 61% were from cattle with the remainder being about equally shared between goats and sheep. The hair diameter distributions indicated that all had been killed in late summer. Only two colors, black and white, were present in each livestock species. That the sheep were of hair type accords with the use of plant fiber in cloth, and is in keeping with the later appearance of fleeced sheep in the Egyptian New Kingdom. -- AATA