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Vessels, Incensarios, Masks, Ear Spools, 1963-1994

 File — Box: 29, 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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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

  • 1963-1994

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: Images of Teotihuacan site architecture and Museum diagram. Slides numbered for lecture order. 7/1974 - 8/1974.

Sheet 2: Teotihuacan site architecture and murals. Slides numbered for lecture order. One slide marked with dimensions. 4/1969, 7/1974, 8/1974, 7/1989, 2/1990, 12/1994.

Sheet 3: Teotihuacan incensarios, Incense burners and figural vessels. Most slides numbered. Some slides marked with dimensions. 12/1963, 12/1964, 6/1965, 9/1965, 9/1966, 9/1967, 7/1968, 8/1968, 11/1969, 10/1985.

Sheet 4: Teotihuacan. Polychrome tripod and incised vessels, figural vessels. Two slides marked with dimensions. 8/1963, 10/1963 12/1963, 2/1964, 8/1964, 11/1964, 12/1964, 9/1966, 5/1967, 7/1968, 8/1968, 2/1981.

Sheet 5: Teotihuacan. Polychrome tripod and figural vessels, incensarios and incense burners. Three slides marked with dimensions. Some slides numbered for lecture order. 10/1963, 6/1965, 9/1966,5/1967, 8/1967, 10/1967, 12/1967, 4/1968.

Sheet 6: Teotihuacan. Polychrome tripod and figural vessels, incensarios and incense burners, ceramic figurines, stone carvings. Some slides marked with dimensions. Somes slides numbered. 8/1963, 10/1963, 6/1965, 9/1966, 5/1967, 9/1967,8/1968, 4/1969, 6/1970.

Sheet 7: Teotihuacan site image and diagrams: site and talud-tablero, incensarios/ incense burners, stone inlaid feline figurines. Some slides numbered. 6/1965, 9/1966, 4/1969, 5/1976, 10/1985.

Sheet 8: Teotihuacan. Polychrome tripod vessels, incensarios/ incense burners, stone bowls. Two slides marked with dimensions. Some slides numbered. 12/1963, 12/1964, 6/1965, 9/1966, 8/1968.

Sheet 9: Teotihuacan. Polychrome tripod vessels, incensarios/ incense burner, incised ceramic vessels, ceramic figurines. Three slides marked with dimensions. Some slides numbered. 7/1964, 8/1964 12/1964, 2/1966, 9/1966, 4/1968, 5/1976, 2/1984.

Sheet 10: Teotihuacan. Polychrome and incised vessels. A few slides marked with dimensions. Some slides numbered. 10/1963, 8/1964, 6/1965, 9/1966, 8/1969, 7/1981.

Sheet 11: Teotihuacan. Polychrome tripod vessels, incised ceramic vessels, ceramic shells, carved stone masks. A few slides marked with dimensions. Some slides numbered. 10/1963, 12/1963, 2/1964, 8/1964, 6/1965, 9/1966, 11/1990.

Sheet 12: Teotihuacan, Maya. Ceramic figurines, ceramic stamps/ molds, ear spools, tripod vessel. Some slides marked with dimensions. Some slides numbered. 8/1964, 12/1964, 6/1965, 9/1966, 8/1968, 7/1969, 10/1970, 5/1976, 7/1976.

Sheet 13: Ceramic figurines, incensario/ incense burner, ceramic molds, mural at Teotihuacan, incised ceramic vessels, engraved stone masks. A few slides marked with dimensions. A few slides numbered. 8/1963, 10/1963, 8/1964, 12/1964, 1/1965, 6/1965, 9/1966, 9/1967, 4/1969, 8/1969, 11/1969, 2/1981, 10/1985.

Sheet 14: Teotihuacan. Ceramic tripod vessels and figurine. Two slides marked with dimensions. 8/1964, 9/1968.

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