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Sioux, Crow, Ojibwe, Maidu, Haida, Potawatomi, Aztec, Tarascan, Tlingit, Chumash, Sauk and Fox, 1962-1995

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 7-8

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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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

  • 1962-1995

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: Sioux catlinite and metal, catlinite, and wood pipes. Several slides marked with dimensions. 12/1979, 8/1981, 9/1981, 2/1982.

Sheet 1: Sioux catlinite and metal, catlinite, and wood pipes. Several slides marked with dimensions. 12/1979, 8/1981, 9/1981, 2/1982.

Sheet 2: Sioux catlinite, metal, and wood pipes, axe shaped metal and wood Sioux pipe. Several slides marked with dimensions. Two slides marked with descriptions. 12/1979, 5/1980, 7/1980, 8/1981, 9/1981, 10/1981, 11/1981, 2/1982.

Sheet 3: Sioux catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Several slides marked with dimensions. 8/1981, 9/1981, 2/1982.

Sheet 4: One slide has broken housing. Sioux catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Several slides marked with dimensions. 7/1981, 8/1981, 10/1981, 11/1981, 1/1982, 2/1982.

Sheet 5: Most object dates given. Sioux catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Crow catlinite and wood pipes. Most slides marked with dimensions. 9/1981, 8/1981.

Sheet 6: Most object dates given. One slide has broken housing. Sioux catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Several slides marked with dimensions. 8/1981, 9/1981, 2/1982.

Sheet 7: One object date given. Sioux catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Two slides marked with dimensions. 8/1981, 2/1982, 6/1983.

Sheet 8: Sioux catlinite and wood pipes. 8/1981, 6/1983.

Sheet 9: One slide has broken housing. Sioux catlinite and wood pipe with several details. Several slides marked with dimensions. 6/1983.

Sheet 10: A few object dates given. Sioux catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Plains bone and buffalo hide pipe. One slide marked with description. Several slides marked with dimensions. 1/1982, 2/1982, 2/1983, 9/1985, 10/1985.

Sheet 11: One slide taped in back. Sioux catlinite and wood pipes. Eastern Woodlands catlinite pipe. Sioux wooden flute. A few slides marked with dimensions. One slide marked with description. 5/1980, 2/1981, 7/1981, 9/1981, 1/1982, 6/1983, 9/1985.

Sheet 12: One object date given. Haida argillite pipes, figurine, plate. Great Lakes argillite feline pipe. Sioux catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Potawatomi carved figural pipe. Most slides marked with dimensions. Two slides marked with descriptions. 11/1979, 1/1980, 10/1980, 6/1981, 7/1981, 9/1981, 1/1982, 2/1982.

Sheet 13: One object date given. Ojibwe stone figural pipe. Sioux and Great Lakes catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Aztec incised pipes. A few slides marked with dimensions. One slide marked with description. 5/1980, 11/1962, 8/1981, 9/1981, 3/1983, 6/1983.

Sheet 14: A few object dates given. Aztec and Tarascan(?) incised ceramic pipes. Cord wrapped and painted wooden pipe handles. Sioux and Great Lakes catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Maidu argillite pipe. Haida wooden inlaid pipe. Ceramic parrot pipe. A few slides marked with dimensions. One slide marked with description. 2/1982, 11/1985, 3/1990.

Sheet 15: A few object dates given. Tlingit wooden pipes. Haida argillite pipes. Upper Columbia River steatite pipe. Several slides marked with dimensions. A few slides marked with descriptions. 11/1979, 7/1980, 6/1981, 7/1981.

Sheet 16: Two object dates given. Isleta polychrome ceramic pipe. Sioux and Great Lakes catlinite, metal, and wood pipes. Painted cord wrapped wooden pipe handle. Seneca stone pipes. Snake pipe. A few slides marked with dimensions. 12/1979, 2/1981, 8/1981, 9/1981, 10/1981, 1/1982, 3/1983, 6/1983, 9/1985, 10/1995.

Sheet 17: A few object dates given. Catlinite pipe. Tlingit wooden pipes. Chumash pipes. Sauk and Fox metal figural pipe. Sioux catlinite wood and quilled pipe. Inca stone tube. Hopi ceramic figural pipe. Columbia River wood and metal pipe. A few slides marked with dimensions. One slide marked with description. 8/1963, 4/1981, 5/1981, 6/1981, 7/1981, 2/1982, 11/1985, 3/1990, 8/1994, 10/1995.

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