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Churches, Murals, 1986

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 3

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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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

  • 1986

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: Ixquimilpan murals, plaza cross, nave. Slides are numbered. Undated.

Sheet 2: Some object dates given. Ixquimilpan murals, tiles, nave. San Juan de Ulúa. Acolman monastery of San Agustín interior painting. Epazoyucan mural. Cuilapan Monastery arches, murals, relief with date glyphs. Some info given. 1986.

Sheet 3: Some object dates given. Calpan: Chapel of the Assumption, Chapel of San Andres, Atrium of Domenican monastery in Puebla. Tlaxcala Monastery Church of the Assumption. Church of Tecali: façade and atrium. Huejotzingo cloister, plan, door. Some info given. January 1986.

Sheet 4: Some object dates given. Chapel of Santiago de Tlaxacapan façade. La Ermita del Rosario Veracruz: apse. Templo y Convento de Los Santos Reyes y Convento de la Comunidad, Campeche Castle of Stairs. Former convent of Santa Maria Magdalena in Cuitzeo. Aqueduct of Navayocan, Durango. Actopan Fresco of archbishops of Naples and Urbino. Some info given. January 1986.

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