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Marjorie Halpin (MOA Curator) fonds Subseries
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Anth 432 and Anth 431

Sub-series consists of textual records including articles, student papers, and photographs accumulated in order to create a source book for Anthropology 432 taught by Dr. Halpin. It also consists of course outlines and bibliographies for Anthropology 431, which was also taught by Dr. Halpin.

Museology Notes

Sub-series consists of textual records including Dr. Halpin’s personal notes on a proposal put forward to expand the department curriculum to offer a museology program.

Northern Coast Women

Sub-series consists of textual records on a student project “North West Coast First Nations Professional Women Artists”. Includes correspondence, consent forms, and grant funding applications.

Tent of Meetings

Sub-series consists of records related to “The Tent of Meeting”, a traveling exhibition of art and music sponsored by the Santa Fe Council of the Arts. Dr. Halpin was involved in discussions to bring the display to Vancouver for Expo ’86.

Sasquatch Conference

Sub-series consists of records relating to Halpin’s planning and organization of the Sasquatch conference. The records include correspondence between Halpin and speakers, scholars, general inquiries regarding the conference, interdepartmental memorandas, funding and grant applications, conference paper abstracts, articles, book reviews, conference summaries, news releases, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, postcards, photographs, sew-on patches with Sasquatch figures on them, and audio cassettes of interviews and presentations from the Sasquatch conference.

Inuit Art Round Table

Sub-series consists of textual records related research on and the roundtable discussion on Inuit Art. Includes correspondence regarding the schedule and program of the meeting, a list of attendees, and information on specific artifacts.

Visiting scholars

Sub-series consists of textual records relating to visiting scholars who gave public lectures at the Museum of Anthropology. Included is correspondence and memos to A. Gerbrands, Paul Gibbons, Emmett Hannibal, and Lawrence Moss.

Norman Tait

Sub-series consists of textual records, photographs and an interview of Norman Tait, a native artist of the region who held a public barbecue at the Museum of Anthropology to celebrate the completion of two carved cedar canoes. Included is biographic information about Tait, a press statement, and a public service announcement for the BBQ.

Opening

Sub-series consists of textual records including speeches given at the opening of the Museum of Anthropology at its new site on NW Marine Drive in 1976.

West Coast Photographs project

Sub-series consists of textual records and graphic images related to a project by Halpin and Ron Hamilton that attempted to document the lineage of a native community through photographs. Included are correspondence requesting the use of photographs, grant application forms, and photocopies of potential photographs for the project.

Labels

Sub-series consists of textual records related to the creation of labels for various objects on exhibit in the Museum of Anthropology. Included are correspondence, memos, research, background notes, and schematic floor plans for the placement of labels for the Great Hall and objects on the ramp at the museum.

First Nations and multimedia

Sub-series consists of textual records from the project coordinated by Dr. Halpin after numerous requests from first nations communities for training in multimedia technology. Includes correspondence, a draft copy of the project proposal, and the application form for Arts Apprentice funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage.

CD-Rom projects

Sub-series consists of textual records, including general research and planning files, permission forms, interviews and biographic information used by Dr. Halpin to develop a number of CD-Rom projects on native artists. The records also include a print out of the “Button Robes” cd-rom project on first nations form of traditional dress and the iconography behind them, and photographs, slides, compact disks, videos, and tapes from the Dorothy Grant project.

Squamish Long House

Sub-series consists of textual records from the Museum of Anthropology project supporting the construction of a long house in Seattle, Washington, by the Squamish native community. Includes correspondence, contract proposals, the proposed site plan, press releases, and newspaper articles.

Image recovery

Sub-series consists of textual records including reports on the recovery of painted images on Northwest Coast native art and masks. Included is a copy of Heritage West, Fall 1982, vol.6, #3, which contains an article on the MOA image recovery project.

Expansion 1984

Sub-series consists of textual records including correspondence, site plans, reports, and polaroid photographs of the model building expansion of the Museum of Anthropology by Arthur Erickson.

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