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Lord of Sipan Tomb, Lambayeque, Nazca Lines, Tucume, Cerro Sechín, 1963-2000

 File — Box: 26, 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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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

  • 1963-2000

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 22: Lord of Sipan tomb, images of Lambayeque archaeological site. Women brewing chicha. Undated.

Sheet 23: Lord of Sipan tomb, images of Lambayeque archaeological site. Unknown church. Undated.

Sheet 24: Nazca lines aerial photos. Moche figural ceramic vessels. Viru Textile. Nazca textile sculpture. Some dimensions given. 1963; 1968-70; 1995; 2000.

Sheet 25: Photos of Tucume archaeological site. Undated.

Sheet 26: Photos of Tucume archaeological site. Iglesia de San Pedro, Lambayeque. Undated.

Sheet 27: Lord of Sipan tomb, images of Lambayeque archaeological site. Diagrams of adobe reliefs. Photo of cacti. Undated.

Sheet 28: Photos of Nazca stone aqueducts and cisterns. Wooden figurines, sheet metal mask. October 2000.

Sheet 29: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. Wooden figurines, metal necklace. Undated.

Sheet 30: Cerro Sechín stone reliefs. Inca terraces and other stonework. October 2000.

Sheet 31: Huaraz lake. Chongoyape metal ear spool. Huarmey Valley ceramic vessels. Some info given. 1963-4; 2000.

Sheet 32: All angles of Cupisnique ceramic vessel. Dimensions given. October 2000.

Sheet 33: One commercial slide. Painted Chavin textile. Chongoyape cylindrical metal vessel. Chavin metal adornment. Dimensions and info given. 1964.

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