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Moche, Tiwanaku, Costa Rica, Cuna, Vicus, Gran Coclé, Recuay, 1967-1995

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 5

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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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

  • 1967-1995

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: Unlabeled photos of Cuna Natives, macaws and Panamanian landscape. April 1995.

Sheet 2: Unlabeled photos of Cuna Natives, their village and, boats. April 1995.

Sheet 3: Nazca polychrome vessels and plates. Chavin incised vessels. Earl colonial Inca keros. Some info and dimensions given. Undated.

Sheet 4: Moche figural and fine line painted vessels, metal tumi knife. Some info and dimensions given. 1969; 1995.

Sheet 5: Chavin incised and figural ceramic vessels. Paracas resin painted vessel. Some info and dimensions given. Undated.

Sheet 6: Moche: figural vessels. Costa Rica: stone head and feline metate, polychrome figural rattle vessel, bowl. Ecuador: Valdivia figurines, Shipibo ceramic vessels. Some info and dimensions given. 1979; 1990.

Sheet 7: Some object dates given. Tiwanaku: incised and polychrome vessels, four-cornered hat. Inca kero. Moche figural vessels, portrait vessel. Info and dimensions given. Undated.

Sheet 8: Some object dates given. Panama polychrome vessel. Nazca: polychrome figural vessels. Moche: mold made figurines. Early Vicus figural vessel. Info and dimensions given. 1995.

Sheet 9: Some object dates given. Gran Coclé polychrome pedestal plates and vessel. Unlabeled Peruvian textiles, cloth figurine, and Tiwanaku four-cornered hat. Guayami palm bark, antlers, and boar jaw textile costume. Moche figural ceramics. Costa Rica stone feline metate. Some info and dimensions given. 1967; 1993.

Sheet 10: Some object dates given. Vicus and Recuay figural ceramics. Paracas textile needle case. Some dimensions given. Undated.

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