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Sub-series consists of textual records related to attempts to receive funding to replicate West Coast artifacts for the Museum of Anthropology collection.

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.

Sub-series consists of textual records for the West Coast art exhibit organized by Ron Hamilton and Marjorie Halpin. Records include Hamilton’s biography, exhibit correspondence, project proposal and exhibit planning. Also included is a transcript from a taped interview of Ron Hamilton by Karen Duffek in 1989.

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.

Sub-series consists of textual records related to Halpin’s work on a number of videos. Included is the narrative for the video “Introduction to Totem Poles” and notes and photographic research for the U’mista project.

Sub-series consists of textual records including correspondence regarding and general research notes on totem poles, and specific research on the poles of Stanley Park and the artisans who worked on them. Records also include biographies on the artisans who carved the museum totem poles and correspondence and the agreement between the Museum of Anthropology and the Royal British Columbia Museum to remove totem poles from Kitwancool in 1958. Sub-series also contains slides of totem poles, three video tapes, one photograph and one cassette tape.

Sub-series consists of textual records related to an exhibit on visible storage space at the museum. Records include meeting minutes from the Textile Committee and reports by Michael Ames, Moya Robinson, Herb Watson, Audrey Shane, and the Royal Ontario Museum.

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.

Sub-series consists of textual records including the report by Lindsey Rivers titled “An Evaluation of the Museum of Anthropology Summer Internship Programme” which was submitted for Anthropology 431, Museum Principles and Techniques, April 1983.

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.

Sub-series consists of records related to the 1986 exhibition on the art of Jack Shadbolt and includes textual records, photographs, slides, and one lecture tape. The textual records include grants and contracts, correspondence requesting loans of specific artwork for the exhibit, records relating to exhibit planning and compilation of the exhibit catalogue, exhibit reviews, a copy of the exhibit comment book, and interviews with Shadbolt. Also included are photographs of exhibit pieces.
The sub-series has been divided into three sub-sub-series:

1. Grants, 1984-1986
2. Loans, 1980-1986
3. General, 1973-1986

Sub-series consists of textual records related to the exhibition “Sensibilities” that challenged the notations of segregated collections space according to culture. The basic premise of the exhibit was for the viewer to come up with their own interpretation as to the objects presented before them. Records include exhibit planning notes, exhibit floor plan drawings, correspondence, loan forms, and newspaper articles about the exhibit.

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.

Sub-series consists of textual and graphic records related to the public exhibition of drawings and poems by Nuu-Chah-nulth artist, Ron Hamilton, which depict the cosmology of the First Nations people. Records include an artists’ biography, notes on exhibit planning, loan forms, and a copy of the exhibit comment book. Also included are photographs from the exhibit and of Hamilton’s drawings, recordings of First Nations gatherings taped at the exhibit, and sound recordings of comments by Hamilton on his work.

Sub-series consists of textual records from the one-man show of Northwest Coast First Nations artist Robert Davidson. Records include exhibit correspondence, newspaper articles and a copy of the Canadian Conservation Institute Journal (vol. 3, 1978) that contains an article by Davidson.

Sub-series consists of textual records including research done by Dr. Halpin on various First Nations artisans some of whom are (later) featured in exhibitions. Records include biographies, correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and exhibit brochures on Bill Reid, Laura Wee Lay Laq, Roy Vickers, and Art Thompson.

Sub-series consists of textual records accumulated during research and proposals for exhibits by Dr. Halpin and students. Records include NWC Mechanical Masks and Puppetry, Great Canoes: The Photographs of David Neel, and J. Shadbolt and Northwest Coast Indian Art. Research files include planning and grant applications for the Diesing exhibit and West Coast Screens.

Sub-series consists of textual records including the transcript for the guided tour of the museum collection given by Dr. Halpin, Dr. Michael Kew and Don Bain for staff, students, and volunteers from the Museum of Anthropology on April 13, 1993 and May 30, 1993.

Sub-series consists of textual records from the exhibit “ Ouroboros” by Stephen Clark, and curated by Halpin. Records include correspondence between Halpin and Clark, letters received by Halpin, an exhibit pamphlet, a public relations release, newspaper articles on the exhibit, and a copy of the exhibit comment book.

Sub-series consists of records from the photographic exhibition by David Neel, Kwagiutl, on First Nations elders in British Columbia. Records include newspaper reviews, correspondence, exhibit proposal and planning, and transcripts from interviews with chiefs and village elders. Also included are slides of portraits of chiefs and elders.