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Nazca lines, Huaca de la Luna, Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Chan Chan, Cerro Sechín, Machu Picchu, Chavin de Huantar, Cajamarca, Tiwanaku, El Brujo, Kuntar Wasi, 1993-2000

 File — Box: 25, Folder: 5-7

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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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

  • 1993-2000

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: El lanzon. Stone reliefs. Adobe polychrome mural. Landscape images. Undated.

Sheet 2: Aqueducts, stone relief carvings, aerial photos of archaeological site. October 2000.

Sheet 3: Aerial photos of Nazca lines, stone sculpture. October 2000.

Sheet 4: Stone sculptures and reliefs. Undated.

Sheet 5: Stone sculptures and reliefs. Photos of Peruvians. Undated.

Sheet 6: Photos of Peruvians and small town. Huaca de la Luna adobe frieze. Nazca figural ceramics, figurine. Panpipe. Undated.

Sheet 7: Huaca de la Luna adobe frieze, excavation site. Nazca polychrome vessel. Photos of marina, park. October 2000.

Sheet 8: Nazca polychrome figural vessels. Photos of marina. October 2000.

Sheet 9: Church façade. Paracas coast, Chan Chan molded adobe reliefs. October 2000.

Sheet 10: Nazca desert, aerial photos, Inca center site. October 2000.

Sheet 11: Nazca lines and aerial photos. October 2000.

Sheet 12: Photos of Chan Chan. Sacsayhuamán stonework. October 2000.

Sheet 13: Sacsayhuamán stonework. Llamas and landscape photos. October 2000.

Sheet 14: Aryballos, Inca stonework, Photos of Cusco, Huaca de la Luna adobe frieze. October 2000.

Sheet 15: Photos of Cusco. Inca stonework. Inca silver llama figurines. October 2000.

Sheet 16: Photos of Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, and Machu Picchu. Inca stonework. Inca silver llama figurines. Vicus and Moche figural ceramic vessels. 2000.

Sheet 17: One slide damaged. Aerial photos. Moche Huaca de la Luna frieze. October 2000.

Sheet 18: Aerial photos, Nazca lines. Inca cistern. Ceramic figural vessel. October 2000. November 1993.

Sheet 19: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. Inca cisterns. October 2000.

Sheet 20: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. Chavin de Huantar stone reliefs, tenon heads. Cusco Cathedral façade. Undated.

Sheet 21: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. Cusco cathedral façade, door, exterior. Cusco puma map. October 2000.

Sheet 22: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. Chavin de Huantar stone reliefs, tenon heads, site photos. Undated.

Sheet 23: One slide damaged. Machu Picchu. Inca Stonework. Stone reliefs, sculptures, and tenon heads. October 2000.

Sheet 24: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. Inca stonework. October 2000.

Sheet 25: Photos of Machu Picchu. October 2000.

Sheet 26: Photos of Machu Picchu. October 2000.

Sheet 27: Photos of Machu Picchu. October 2000.

Sheet 28: Photos of Machu Picchu. Chan Chan adobe reliefs. El Brujo adobe reliefs. Kuntar Wasi stone relief and others. Sheet gold adornments. October 2000.

Sheet 29: Photos of Machu Picchu, Tiwanaku, plane. October 2000.

Sheet 30: Photos of Machu Picchu. October 2000.

Sheet 31: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. October 2000.

Sheet 32: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. Undated.

Sheet 33: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. Undated.

Sheet 34: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs, landscape photos, and foliage at site. Undated.

Sheet 35: Huaca de la Luna adobe reliefs, Photos of Andean Peruvian people. October 2000.

Sheet 36: Photos of Andean Peruvian people. October 2000.

Sheet 37: Nazca Polychrome figural vessel. Cajamarca stone cliff funerary niches. Unlabeled Andean pre-Columbian site. October 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