MS 7479 Carl Folke Sahlin paintings
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content: NAA MS 7479

USNM Accession 117604
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content: Four paintings
name: label: Artist
content: Sahlin, Carl Folke, 1885-1976
place: label: Place
content: Central America
label: Place
content: Guatemala
creator: label: Artist
content: Sahlin, Carl Folke, 1885-1976
culture: label: Culture
content: K'iche' Maya (Quiché)
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content: MS 7479 Carl Folke Sahlin paintings
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: 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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Paintings (visual works)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: 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.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7479
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Paintings (visual works)
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content: Works of art
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content: Paintings
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content: Watercolors
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content: Works of art
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content: Paintings
label: Genre/Form
content: Watercolors
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The other 35 paintings donated to the USNM by Sahlin in 1947 are now held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.