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Item is a sound recording of Audrey Hawthorn discussing the work of Mungo Martin as he provides a carving demonstration. Mungo Martin does not speak during the recording. Audrey Hawthorn provides a brief biography of Mungo Martin, a description of his work carving the totem poles that stand at UBC’s totem park, the tools he uses, his design process and lastly describes the the intricate steps required to create Kwakiutl wood carvings.

This fonds consists primarily of records generated by Audrey Hawthorn in her position as an anthropology professor at the University of British Columbia and records related to her publications. It includes notes, course materials, correspondence, memos, draft copies of publications, and some published materials (originals and photocopies). This fonds also contains photographic materials, primarily slides used in teaching Anthropology 331 and 431. The fonds is organized into the following series and subseries:

1. Teaching Records (1963-1978)
   A. Anthropology 331 and Anthropology 431
   B. Teaching Slides

2. Professional Development Records (1973-1975)

3. Research and Publications Records (1955-1982)
   A. Art of the Kwakiutl Indians
   B. Kwakiutl Ceremonial Art
   C. A Labour of Love
   D. Exhibits and Other Research

4. Bill Reid (1962-1998)

Fonds consists of records generated by Audrey Hawthorn in her positions as curator of the Museum of Anthropology.

The fonds is arranged into ten series:

1 - General
2 - Finances
3 - Human Resources
4 - Facilities and Services
5 - Collections
6 - Exhibitions
7 - Public Programmes
8 - School Programmes
9 - Teaching/Training/Research
10 - External Relations

These series are further divided into various subseries. The records include, but are not limited to, correspondence between Audrey Hawthorn and a variety of donors, scholars, and other parties associated with the museum; materials documenting collections acquisitions and loans; and records relating to visible storage, and the planning and development of the new museum building. There is extensive documentation concerning the acquisition, development and maintenance of the museum collections. The fonds also includes records of Harry Hawthorn, who formally held the position of Director of the museum, during much of his wife’s tenure as Curator, though often it was Audrey Hawthorn who took on the responsibilities of the directorship. Records in this fonds take the form of correspondence, memoranda, ephemera, newspaper clippings, photographs, sketches, plans slides financial documents, schedules, notes, and forms.

See attached pdf document for full finding aid and box/file list.

This subseries consists of photographs from the history of the Museum of Anthropology, including the original museum location in the basement of UBC Library through to the opening of the museum at its current location in 1976.
Subjects include:

• Activities of the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee
• Totem pole restoration by Mungo Martin
• Early images of Totem Park, including the opening ceremony
• Raising of the Mungo Martin memorial pole in Alert Bay
• Visit to UBC by Governor General Vincent Massey
• Carving and construction of the Haida House by Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer
• Images of displays from the Museum of Anthropology's original location in the old library basement
• Exhibitions held at the Museum of Anthropology, especially through the 1950s and 1960s
• Images of Expo 1967 in Montréal
• The Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World", held in Montréal
• Opening Exhibition of the Vancouver Centennial Museum, curated by the Museum of Anthropology
• Design plans, models, and inspirations for the new Museum of Anthropology building
• Images of the new Museum of Anthropology building at various stages of construction
• Moving totem poles from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building
• Packing objects in the old Museum of Anthropology location in the library basement
• Moving objects into the new Museum of Anthropology
• Official opening of the Museum of Anthropology's new location
• Visible storage and early exhibition in the Museum of Anthropology's new location
• Reassembly of the Haida House on the grounds of the new Museum of Anthropology building
• Activities and classes held at the Museum of Anthropology's new location