The Urmum Thumb, and the Plates

There is no description of him translating with a curtain. We know this nail hold must have held up the blanket. So it's quite possible, ah tha, was the way it was from the beginning. They were wrapped in a cloth, and he just looked in the erm and saw them. And that's always shielding o that's been conjectured, but no one knows that for sure.