File includes one photograph of MOA Object ID A5307 which is a box. The contents of this file were used to create object labels for MOA's Great Hall.

This file includes a letter from B. Robert Butler, an archaeologist with the university of Washington. It appears to be Butler's reply to an initial letter from Wilson Duff in relation to an article published by Butler. The text focuses on Butler's theses related to "pre-contact" artistic traditions in the region between the Fraser and Columbia River Valleys. Butler discusses materials (clay, basketry, and stone) and motifs

This file contains a letter and attached report written by Wilson Duff at the request of Barrie Reynolds, chief ethnologist at the National Museum of Man [Canadian Museum of History]. The contents relate to the valuation of a collection of Northwest Coast cultural belongings and other items that a Mr. Birmingham intended to sell to the museum. Duff provides an overarching analysis of the collection and comments on the discrepancies between (1) museum valuation and its emphasis on ethnological information, and (2) an art market in which investors view objects and belongings based on aesthetic qualities and their potential as investment pieces.

File contains one copy of the publication titled A Guide to Buying Contemporary Northwest Coast Indian Arts, written by Karen Duffek. It is No. 10 in the Museum Note series.