Archivo MAPA

Description:

Photograph in rectangular format and horizontal layout. In a long shot, a portrait of a group. From right to left: Idelpauso Parada Valdés, an Uruguayan representative, Tomás Lago, a Paraguayan folklorist, Renato Almeida, Congress President; Delia Solimano, Tomás Lago’s wife; Colonel Cesar Bejarano, Paraguayan representative; Rosini Tavares de Lima, Congress Secretary. The delegates participated in the Inter-American Folklore Exhibition in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Context:

The Inter-American Folklore Exhibition in Sao Paulo, Brazil, lasted from August until October 1954. In it, 406 pieces from the American Folk Art Museum collection were exhibited, such as stirrups, spurs, saddles, blankets, Mapuche textiles, ceramics from different periods and areas of Chile, basket making, and glass, among others. All these were exhibited in a Chilean stand in charge of Tomás Lago (director 1943-1968).

Subjects:
Brazil, International Exhibitions, Itinerant exhibition