Pre-Columbian Vessels and Figurines, Landscape Photos, Illustrations from Books, Flint, Spindle Whorls, Flutes, 1962
File — Box: 30, Folder: 10
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 A 2023 addition is comprised of an unpublished, incomplete book project returned by a publisher.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.
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
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: Gold pre-Columbian finial. Undated.
Sheet 2: West Mexican figurines. Undated.
Sheet 3: 6x8 photo of West Mexican Nayarit ceramic architectural form from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Info given. 1962
Sheet 4: Landscape, NW Coast masks, Stone hand. Undated.
Sheet 5: Masks, skeletal figurine, shells on string. Undated.
Sheet 6: Church archutecture photos. Undated.
Sheet 7: Images of spiders (original actetate sleeve labeled as 2). Undated.
Sheet 8: Desert landscape photos (original acetate sleeve labeled as 25). Undated.
Sheet 9: Coastal photos and seals (original acetate sleeve labeled as 1). Undated.
Sheet 10: Coastal photos and seals. Undated.
Sheet 11: Coastal photos and seals (original acetate sleeve labeled as 24). Undated.
Sheet 12: Coastal photos and seals (original acetate sleeve labeled as 23). Undated.
Sheet 13: Coastal photos and seals. Undated.
Sheet 14: Coastal photos and seals, people in boat (original acetate sleeve labeled as 21). Undated.
Sheet 15: Illustrations of Moche fineline paintings and textiles. Carved curved object (original acetate sleeve labeled as 3) Undated.
Sheet 16: Ceramic figurines, West Mexican ceramic architectural forms and genre scenes (original acetate sleeve labeled as 4). Undated.
Sheet 17: Painted ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 5). Undated.
Sheet 18: Illustrations of New Guinea iconography (original acetate sleeve labeled as 6). Undated.
Sheet 19: Pre-Columbian ceramic figurines and vessels, tripod vessel (original acetate sleeve labeled as 7). Undated.
Sheet 20: Photo of people. Darien pendants, Colombian and Peruvian pre-Columbian jewelry. Peruvian mask (original acetate sleeve labeled as 8). Undated.
Sheet 21: Photos of people. Jalisco ceramic figurines. Ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 9). Undated.
Sheet 22: Jalisco ceramic figurines, whistles, ear spools. Undated.
Sheet 23: West Mexican ceramic figurines (original acetate sleeve labeled as 11). Undated.
Sheet 24: Photos of a cat. Peruvian ceramic vessels. Aztec mosaic and stone relief (original acetate sleeve labeled as 12). Undated.
Sheet 25: Pre-Columbian Ceramic figurines and vessels. Ear spools (original acetate sleeve labeled as 13). Undated.
Sheet 26: Pre-Columbian Ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 14). Undated.
Sheet 27: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 15). Undated.
Sheet 28: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 16). Undated.
Sheet 29: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels, figurines, and whistles (original acetate sleeve labeled as 17). Undated.
Sheet 30: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels and figural vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 18). Undated.
Sheet 31: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels. Undated.
Sheet 32: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels, figurines, and stone reliefs. Undated.
Sheet 33: West Mexican whistles, figurines, and vessels. Undated.
Sheet 34: Illustrations of Moche fineline paintings. Ceramic vessel. Undated.
Sheet 35: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Undated.
Sheet 36: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Undated.
Sheet 37: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Undated.
Sheet 38: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Photos of people and children camping. Undated.
Sheet 39: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Stone relief carvings. Undated.
Sheet 40: West Mexican ceramic figurines and vessels. Undated.
Sheet 41: West Mexican ceramic figurines and vessels. Undated.
Sheet 42: Pre-Columbian vessels, NW Coast carvings. Undated.
Sheet 43: Pre-Columbian vessels, nose rings, necklace, Olmec figurines. Undated.
Sheet 44: Olmec masks, figurines. Necklaces. Ceramic vessels. Undated.
Sheet 45: Flutes, figurines, knapped flint, darien pendents, tumi knife, figural whistle. Undated.
Sheet 46: Darien pendants, Peruvian masks, metal kero. Undated.
Sheet 47: Ceramic vessels, figural stone carving. Undated.
Sheet 48: Figurines, spindle whorls. Undated.
Sheet 49: Ceramic figurines. Undated.
Sheet 2: West Mexican figurines. Undated.
Sheet 3: 6x8 photo of West Mexican Nayarit ceramic architectural form from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Info given. 1962
Sheet 4: Landscape, NW Coast masks, Stone hand. Undated.
Sheet 5: Masks, skeletal figurine, shells on string. Undated.
Sheet 6: Church archutecture photos. Undated.
Sheet 7: Images of spiders (original actetate sleeve labeled as 2). Undated.
Sheet 8: Desert landscape photos (original acetate sleeve labeled as 25). Undated.
Sheet 9: Coastal photos and seals (original acetate sleeve labeled as 1). Undated.
Sheet 10: Coastal photos and seals. Undated.
Sheet 11: Coastal photos and seals (original acetate sleeve labeled as 24). Undated.
Sheet 12: Coastal photos and seals (original acetate sleeve labeled as 23). Undated.
Sheet 13: Coastal photos and seals. Undated.
Sheet 14: Coastal photos and seals, people in boat (original acetate sleeve labeled as 21). Undated.
Sheet 15: Illustrations of Moche fineline paintings and textiles. Carved curved object (original acetate sleeve labeled as 3) Undated.
Sheet 16: Ceramic figurines, West Mexican ceramic architectural forms and genre scenes (original acetate sleeve labeled as 4). Undated.
Sheet 17: Painted ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 5). Undated.
Sheet 18: Illustrations of New Guinea iconography (original acetate sleeve labeled as 6). Undated.
Sheet 19: Pre-Columbian ceramic figurines and vessels, tripod vessel (original acetate sleeve labeled as 7). Undated.
Sheet 20: Photo of people. Darien pendants, Colombian and Peruvian pre-Columbian jewelry. Peruvian mask (original acetate sleeve labeled as 8). Undated.
Sheet 21: Photos of people. Jalisco ceramic figurines. Ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 9). Undated.
Sheet 22: Jalisco ceramic figurines, whistles, ear spools. Undated.
Sheet 23: West Mexican ceramic figurines (original acetate sleeve labeled as 11). Undated.
Sheet 24: Photos of a cat. Peruvian ceramic vessels. Aztec mosaic and stone relief (original acetate sleeve labeled as 12). Undated.
Sheet 25: Pre-Columbian Ceramic figurines and vessels. Ear spools (original acetate sleeve labeled as 13). Undated.
Sheet 26: Pre-Columbian Ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 14). Undated.
Sheet 27: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 15). Undated.
Sheet 28: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 16). Undated.
Sheet 29: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels, figurines, and whistles (original acetate sleeve labeled as 17). Undated.
Sheet 30: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels and figural vessels (original acetate sleeve labeled as 18). Undated.
Sheet 31: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels. Undated.
Sheet 32: Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels, figurines, and stone reliefs. Undated.
Sheet 33: West Mexican whistles, figurines, and vessels. Undated.
Sheet 34: Illustrations of Moche fineline paintings. Ceramic vessel. Undated.
Sheet 35: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Undated.
Sheet 36: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Undated.
Sheet 37: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Undated.
Sheet 38: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Photos of people and children camping. Undated.
Sheet 39: West Mexican ceramic figurines. Stone relief carvings. Undated.
Sheet 40: West Mexican ceramic figurines and vessels. Undated.
Sheet 41: West Mexican ceramic figurines and vessels. Undated.
Sheet 42: Pre-Columbian vessels, NW Coast carvings. Undated.
Sheet 43: Pre-Columbian vessels, nose rings, necklace, Olmec figurines. Undated.
Sheet 44: Olmec masks, figurines. Necklaces. Ceramic vessels. Undated.
Sheet 45: Flutes, figurines, knapped flint, darien pendents, tumi knife, figural whistle. Undated.
Sheet 46: Darien pendants, Peruvian masks, metal kero. Undated.
Sheet 47: Ceramic vessels, figural stone carving. Undated.
Sheet 48: Figurines, spindle whorls. Undated.
Sheet 49: Ceramic figurines. 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
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