Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

41-1-a060279c
Item
[ca.1947-1950]

Item is a photograph of painted cedar wood carvings including Sisiyutl (serpent), thunderbird, coppers, and [wolf?] figures in Alert Bay.

Bill Reid's bear sculpture in the Museum of Anthropology

132-1-C-C-a041530
Item
1976?

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Bill Reid's bear sculpture. This item was commissioned by Walter C. Koerner in 1963 and later donated to the University of British Columbia.

Bill Reid's bear sculpture in the Museum of Anthropology

132-1-C-C-a041561
Item
1976?

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Bill Reid's bear sculpture. This item was commissioned by Walter C. Koerner in 1963 and later donated to the University of British Columbia.

View of the Great Hall from the O'Brian Gallery

132-1-C-C-a041568
Item
1976?

Parte deMOA General Media collection

View of the Great Hall from the O'Brian Gallery in the Museum of Anthropology. A carving of an ancestor figure is visible on the viewer's right.

A sculpture of an Inuit man playing the drum

132-1-C-C-a041604
Item
[197-?]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

A soap stone and caribou bone sculpture of an Inuit man playing the drum.

Don Bain Massive Carvings Documentation Project

133-01-05-C
Sub-séries
[1991?]-[1996?]

Parte deCollections Care, Management and Access fonds

Subseries consists of records collected or created by Don Bain during the course of his Massive Carvings Documentation Project. This project took place in the early to mid 1990s. The Massive Carvings Documentation Project was intended to compile information directly related to the poles and massive carvings in the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) collection into a set of Totem Pole Files. The Totem Pole Files were intended to be accessible to MOA staff, volunteers, students, and the general public. The subseries is divided into two sub subseries:

a. Totem pole files
b. Working files