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Pomo, Pauite, Yurok, Hupa, Karok, Yokuts, Hupa, Maidu, Shasta, Cahuilla, Washoe, Havasupai, Yarapai, Tlingit, 1962-1983

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6-7

Scope and Content

From the Collection: Collection includes around 78,000 35mm slides and a small number of film negatives photographed by Furst. There are also commercially purchased slides and some taken by a few other photographers, including his wife, Dee Furst. Furst used this collection for his teaching and research. The image topics include: pre-Hispanic and colonial era Latin American art and architecture; pre-Columbian, colonial, modern, and contemporary Native American ceremonial, tourist, and functional art objects, fine art, and cultural photographs; Asian and Siberian art and cultural artifacts; and photographs of flora and fauna specimens. The collection includes Furst's visits to many pre-Hispanic archaeological sites, as well as his trips to Europe. Many of the photographs are from museum collections, as well as galleries and private collections, with a significant number of images from the pre-Columbian expert David Stuart's gallery collections in Los Angeles.

Collection was received as binders of slides labeled by Furst into groups believed to correspond to lecture and research groupings. Furst's binder arrangement is preserved in folders, with each folder or folder group corresponding to one of the original binders. Slide order within binders/folders has generally been preserved; but binders have been alphabetized by topic. Collection was first received by the Bunting Visual Resources Library at the University of New Mexico and was later transferred to the Center for Southwest Research in 2016 and was processed in 2019. Specific identifying information is recorded in "general" notes with the archival object file records. A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher. The proposed book would have been titled "Shamanism and Arts of Ecstasy" and proposal materials include slides, prints, correspondence and an incomplete manuscript.

Dates

  • 1962-1983

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 78,000 items (31 boxes) : 78,000 film transparencies; 9 color prints ; 35 mm slides and negatives

General

Sheet 1: Pomo feathered baskets. Pomo and Paiute beaded baskets. Pomo basket cradleboards and miniature cradleboard. Pomo hide dresses. Illustrations of Pomo natives. Most dimensions and some info given. 1979-80.

Sheet 2: Pomo feathered baskets. Pomo hide dresses. Ceramic canteens. Lidded baskets. Carved shell ornament. Some dimensions given. 1979-81; 1983.

Sheet 3: Yokuts baskets, gambling baskets. Dimensions and some info given. 1981.

Sheet 4: Some object dates given. Yurok/ Hupa/ Karok baskets, basketry hats. Yurok lidded baskets. Yurok spoons/ ladles. Yurok abalone, feather, shell, and hide dress. Some dimensions and info given. 1980-81.

Sheet 5: Some object dates given. One commercial slide: Pomo gift basket. Pomo feathered baskets. String of bivalve shells with handle. Feathered woman's ear ornaments. Some dimensions and info given. 1979-81; 1983.

Sheet 6: Pomo feathered baskets. Dimensions and info given. 1963; 1979-80.

Sheet 7: Pomo feathered baskets. Dimensions and some info given. 1962-3; 1980.

Sheet 8: Hupa crown. Textile head ornaments. Hide Shell beaded dress. Beaded clothing. Feathered ornaments. Basket. Info given. 1980-1; 1983.

Sheet 9: Feathered baskets. Basketry cradleboard. Deer tails with pigment. Baskets. Deer head. 1980; 1983.

Sheet 10: Pomo feathered bowls and baskets. Hopi basket. Some dimensions and info given. 1980.

Sheet 11: Basketry hats. Native California clothing. Feathered basket. Vessel. Some dimensions given. 1981; 1983.

Sheet 12: Some object dates given. Maricopa black on white vessels. Maricopa red ware canteens. Redware vessels. Shoshone Panamint basket. Miwok baskets. Hualapi baskets. Some dimensions and info given. 1983.

Sheet 13: Mission coiled baskets, mission Cahuilla tray. Shasta basket. Photos of paleontology and archaeology excavations at Newport Beach and Red Rock Canyon. Hupa hide and beaded clothing, feathered baskets. Cahuilla baskets. Kern country cave paintings. Some dimensions and info given. 1980-1; 1983.

Sheet 14: Yurok spoons. Karok basketry hats, lidded hats, collecting baskets. Dimensions and some info given. 1981; 1983.

Sheet 15: Some object dates given. Southern Maidu tray, baskets, collecting baskets. Maidu or Miwok stone carving. Mono cradleboards and baskets. Some dimensions and info given. 1979-82.

Sheet 16: Washoe: Datsolali baskets. Tubatulabal baskets. Some info given. 1981; 1983.

Sheet 17: An object date given. Yukuts baskets. Yarapai basketry tray, Havasupai tray. Tlingit lidded baskets. Some dimensions given. 1980-1.

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451