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.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 7479
USNM Accession 117604
Variant title:
Four paintings
Separated Materials:
The other 35 paintings donated to the USNM by Sahlin in 1947 are now held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Works of art
Paintings
Watercolors
Citation:
MS 7479 Carl Folke Sahlin paintings, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photographs probably made by Ruth Bunzel during her fieldwork among the Quiche in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, in 1930-32. Images include Quiche individuals and families, a church (probably the Church of Santo Tomás), a procession and ceremony, and landscapes.
Biographical/Historical note:
Ruth Leah Bunzel (1898-1990) started a career in anthropology after acquiring a secretarial job with Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1922. With support from Boas, Bunzel regularly traveled to the Southwest to study Zuni potters from 1924-1929. Studying under Boaz, she earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1929. Her papers on Zuni ceremonialism as well as creation myths, kachinas, and poetry were published in the 47th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. From 1930 to 1932 she studied the Highland Mayan village of Chichicastenango and later published Chichicastenango, A Guatemalan Village (1952). She also conducted fieldwork in the village of Chamula in Chiapas, Mexico, and published a comparative study of the two villages entitled "The Role of Alcoholism in Two Central American Communities" (1940).
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 2007-10
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds the Ruth Lean Bunzel papers and drawings of Kachinas collected by Bunzel (MS 4609).
Correspondence between Bunzel and the BAE held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4846 and records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
A photograph of Bunzel held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 92-35.
A video oral history of Bunzel, created as part of the "History of Anthropology Series" produced by the University of Florida's Department of Anthropology, is held in the Human Studies Film Archive in HSFA 89.10.8.
Restrictions:
Nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advanced notice for viewing.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 2007-10, Ruth Leah Bunzel photographs of Quiche peoples of Guatemala, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Woman Milling with Mano and Metate, Old Man Carving Gourd Bowl, and Young Boy Cooking? with Comal (Griddle) Over Hearth; All in Costume Outside Pole and Adobe Brick House; Boy in Doorway
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (004 in x 005 in mounted on 007 in x 008 in)
