Carl Folke Sahlin (1885-1976) was a Swedish-born American artist. He traveled extensively and his paintings document the costumes and customs of the world's peoples.
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NAA MS 7479
USNM Accession 117604
Four paintings
The paintings were donated to the United States National Museum (USNM) by Carl Folke Sahlin as part of a larger collection of 38 paintings on November 24, 1947. The three paintings in this collection were transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in June 1989.
The other 35 paintings donated to the USNM by Sahlin in 1947 are now held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
MS 7479 Carl Folke Sahlin paintings, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Market in Quiche
NAA MS 7479 (part)
Artist's caption: "To the market in Quiche come Indians from all villages. The figure in the dark skirt is from Nahuala, the most Indian village in all Guatemala, where no white man is allowed overnight. The red and white huipil is from Patzia. Patzia was the place while I was in Guatemala where the Indians massacred a good part of the Ladino population."
Two women at edge of Lake Atitlan
Artist's caption: "Santiago de Atitlan"
The weavers of San Antonio-Aguas Calientes
Artist's caption: "Gay colored huipiles of Guatemala. The textiles of Guatemala have a variety and a charm rarely surpassed by the designs from highly paid designers studios. The shirt waists are especially fascinating and each region has its own pattern. Chichecastenango [sic] purple and red with the sun emblem, Coban and Tic Tac white and also highly embroidered in orange and around San Sebastian like the weavers above."