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Caribbean, North America, Mexico, South America, 1962-2005

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 1

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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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

  • 1962-2005

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: Chimu, Mixtec, Inca, Chavin. Textile, codex pages, pipes, snuff trays, keros, earthwork, snuff illustration. Some dimensions given. 1972; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1999; 2000; 2002; 2004.

Sheet 2: Unlabeled slide damaged and taped together. Chavin, Casas Grandes cultures. San pedro cactus imagery. Some dimensions given. 1962; 1971; 1974; 1990; 1993; 1999; 2004.

Sheet 3: One label is unreadable because a sticker was placed over it. Images of A. Peregrina and S. Secundiflora botanical specimens. Teotihuacan, Maya, Monte Alban, Inca. Keros, ceramic vessels, enema imagery, Darien pendant. Some dimensions given. 1968; 1972; 1990; 1996; 1997; 2000; 2002; 2004; 2005.

Sheet 4: Moche, Hopi, Northern ancestral Pueblos/ Anasazi, Tiwanaku, Caddo, Plains Native, Nayarit. Images of B. Marinus toad and Peyote cactus. Ceramic stirrup spouts, ceramic datura effigy vessel, snuff tablets, pipes. Some dimensions given. 1979; 1983; 1996; 1997; 2001; 2005.

Sheet 5: Nazca, Taíno , and Olmec cultures. Duho, cohoba snuffer, snuff trays. Some dimensions and descriptions given. 1990; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 2002.

Sheet 6: Huichol, Maya Ulúa, Nayarit, Chanchay. Guerrero Puerto Marquez petroglyph. Yarn painting, snuffer, stone vessels. Image of A. peregrina. 1971; 1996; 1997; 2001.

Sheet 7: Tiwanaku, Siberia, Caddo, Chorrera. China lake, California petroglyphs, Painted cave, California. Datura illustrations and images, Snuff trays and ceramic vessels. Some dimensions given. 1970; 1992; 1994; 1995; 1997.

Sheet 8: Colima, Olmec, Veracruz, Maya, Tlingit. Enema figurines, snuff trays and snuff tray illustrations, pipes, Sahagun illustration of datura. Some dimensions given. 1967; 1970; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1995; 1996; 1999; 2001; 2005.

Sheet 9: Sioux, Valdivia, Cajamarca, Wari/ Huari, Tiwanaku, Monte Alban. Pipes, snuff trays, mortars, and ceramic figurines. Some dimensions given. 1972; 1977; 1990; 1993; 1995; 1996; 2001.

Sheet 10: Tarascan, Zacatecas, Haida, Chumash, Maya. Pipes, ceramic figurines and stone and ceramic vessels. Some dimensions and info given. 1971; 1977; 1982; 1995; 1998.

Sheet 11: Tarascan, Ojibwe, Iroquois, Hopewell, Chumash, Maya. Pipes and ceramic figurines. Some dimensions and info given. 1990; 1994; 1995.

Sheet 12: Seneca, Passamaquoddy/ Penobscot, Menominee, Micmac. Pipes, mushroom stones, tobacco altar. Some dimensions and info given. 1981; 1994; 1996.

Sheet 13: Chavin, Nazca, Jalisco, Cupisnique, Moche. Textile, ceramic figurines and vessels, figural vessels. Image of san pedro cactus and Amanita muscaria mushroom botanical samples. Some dimensions and info given. 1971; 1993; 1999; 2000.

Sheet 14: Chumash vessels, Datura plant specimen and illustration. Pecos panther cave, Painted Cave, California. 1969; 1985; 2003.

Sheet 15: Colima, Aztec, Wari/ Huari, Teotihuacan, Zuni. Images of morning glory, datura, and peyote botanical specimens. "morning glory rattle" Sahagun enema and datura illustration. 1969; 1970; 1971; 1974; 2000; 2002.

Sheet 16: Quimbaya, Maya, Jalisco, Zacatecas. Mushroom stones, Turbina corymbosa (ololiuhqui) illustration, amanita muscaria specimen, Darien pendants. 1964; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1976; 1993.

Sheet 17: Inca, Calima, Sioux, Isleta, Hopewell, Eskimo or Inuit, Chumash, Ojibway or Ojibwe, Tlingit. Pipes, coca chewers ceramic figurines, coca textile bag. 1964; 1982; 1985; 1989; 1994; 1995; 1996.

Sheet 18: Mixtec, Monte Alban, Inca. Ceramic vessels, quartz vessel, keros, ceramic graters. 1963; 1964; 1980; 1996; 1997.

Sheet 19: Colima, Taíno, Atacama, Nazca, Tairona, Paracas, Inca. Pipes, snuff trays, feather work, A. Peregrina, bone vomiting spoon. 1980; 1989; 1990; 1994; 1995; 1996.

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
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Albuquerque NM 87131
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