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Landscape, Flora, Fauna, People, Petroglyphs, Masks, Bowls, 2002

 File — Box: 9, 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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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

  • 2002

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: Photos of indigenous people carving, wooden building, kayak. Akua wooden carvings. Photos of landscape. November 2002.

Sheet 2: Wooden umeke (bowls). Feathered cape. Kapa bark cloth textiles. Wooden figural sculptures, human and avian. Carved coconut. Feathered object. November 2002.

Sheet 3: Photos of landscape. November 2002.

Sheet 4: Photos of landscape and observatory. November 2002.

Sheet 5: Photos of landscape and observatory, waterfall. November 2002.

Sheet 6: Photos of petroglyphs, landscapes, church, indigenous man. November 2002.

Sheet 7: Photos of flora, carved wooden akua. November 2002.

Sheet 8: Photos of flora and petroglyphs. November 2002.

Sheet 9: Photos of landscape. November 2002.

Sheet 10: Photos of landscape and petroglyphs. November 2002.

Sheet 11: Photos of sea turtle, ocean, petroglyphs, indigenous man. November 2002.

Sheet 12: Photos of grass building with stone foundation, grinding stones, indigenous man, flower. November 2002.

Sheet 13: Photos of landscape, indigenous man, stone building foundations. November 2002.

Sheet 14: Photos of landscape and flora. November 2002.

Sheet 15: Wooden umeke (bowls). Wooden masks and sculptures. Miniature building form. Photos of landscape, indigenous man, colonial architecture. November 2002.

Sheet 16: Mask. Landscape photos. November 2002.

Sheet 17: Landscape photos. November 2002.

Sheet 18: Photos of petroglyphs and landscape. November 2002.

Sheet 19: Photos of petroglyph and flora. November 2002.

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