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Masks, Pipes, Wampum, Moccasins, Ladles, Bowls, Birch Bark Containers, Rattles, Dioramas, Textiles, Baskets, 1979-2000

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1-2

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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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

  • 1979-2000

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: Iroquois false face society masks. December 1990.

Sheet 2: Some object dates given. Slide damaged. Blind man mask. False face Society masks. "Hadéhédus society" mask. eramic figural pipe. Quilled moccasins. Quilled birch bark containers. Incised object. Dimensions and some info given. 1980-2.

Sheet 3: Some object dates given. Slides damaged. Seneca wood mortar and pestle, wooden feast ladles (one from Kettle Burial), False Face society mask, Stone pipe. Dimensions and info given. 1980-1.

Sheet 4: False Face society mask, birch bark containers, wooden burl bowls, wooden feast ladles, quilled birch bark containers, Trade silver brooch. Dimensions and some info given. 1981-4.

Sheet 5: Trade silver brooches, feathered headdress, quilled textile. Dimensions given. 1984.

Sheet 6: Hide quilled sheath and pouch. Quilled trade cloth baby carrier. Fully beaded bag. Dimensions and some info given. 1981-2.

Sheet 7: Wampum belts: Washington covenant and Hiawatha belts. Bone comb. 1979; 1983.

Sheet 8: Iroquois, Onondaga false face society masks. Hide quilled sheath and pouch. Quilled trade cloth baby carrier. Dimensions and some info given. 1981-2.

Sheet 9: Slides are labelled. Wampum belt with multi colored seed beads. Undated.

Sheet 10: Some object dates given. Wampum belt with multi colored seed beads, Washington covenant wampum belt. False Face society masks. Quilled moccasins. Turtle shell rattles. Trade silver brooch. Quilled trade cloth baby carrier. Some dimensions given. 1979; 1982; 1984.

Sheet 11: Some object dates given. MPM False Face curing and village dioramas. Paintings of Iroquois corn planter and war council. Moose hair embroidery on textile. Pipe. False face society masks. Bone comb. Dimensions and some info given. 1980-2.

Sheet 12: Some object dates given. Cayuga powder horn, mask. Dimensions and some info given. 1981.

Sheet 13: Ceramic head pipe, war clubs. Dimensions and some info given. 1981-2.

Sheet 14: Some object dates given. Quillwork, moose hair embroidery, and beaded moccasins. Dimensions and some info given. 1980-2.

Sheet 15: Turtle shell rattles. False Face society mask, corn husk mask. Incised powder horn. 1980; 1982.

Sheet 16: Corn husk masks. Turtle shell rattles. Quilled moccasins. False Face society figurine. Wooden feast ladles. Powder horn. Dimensions and some info given. 1962; 1980-2.

Sheet 17: Some object dates given. Corn husk masks. Turtle rattles. Powder horn. Some dimension and info given. 1981-2.

Sheet 18: Some object dates given. Quilled, moose hair embroidery moccasins. Huron textile belt. Mary Adams(?) Mohawk basket. Corn husk masks, False Face Society mask. Seneca feast ladle. Osage Mohongo portrait. Some dimension and info given. 1980; 1982.

Sheet 19: Ballestos Island. Moche Huaca del Sol. Cerro Sechín reliefs. Chan Chan adobe. San Juan de Moros burial and excavation. Gold sheet metal crown, Peru/ Iroquois turtle shell rattle. 1980; 2000.

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