Image / Shawabty figure at the King Tut Exhibition

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Title: Shawabty figure at the King Tut Exhibition
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1978
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Exhibition held at the Los Angeles County of Museum of Art, 1978.
Shawabty figure, possibly of King Tut, was meant to act for its owner when asked to perform duties in the afterlife. Photograph caption reads: "... Shawabty figure, a wooden portrait, possibly of Tutankhamun, designed to perform duties in afterlife." Photograph dated Feb. 15, 1978.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;30 x 22 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078085
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b039_f1_i16
CARL0000079320
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24491
Subject: Tutankhamen,--King of Egypt--Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Art objects, Egyptian--Exhibitions
Egypt--Antiquities
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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