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Series consists of photographs depicting scenes from Hopi life.

Series consist of bibles, hymns, and scriptures referred to throughout Rev. Crosby’s personal and missionary activities. Series includes ephemera removed from The Holy Bible Old & New Testaments. Ephemera consists of documents such as: a letter from The Lord’s Day Alliance of Canada; a letter from the Department of Temperance, Prohibition and Moral Reform of the Methodist Church; a small flower cut-out; a note written by Crosby regarding population sizes; and articles titled “Heaven: What is it like,” “Trusting the Weaver,” “Good Resolutions/ Liquor Arithmetic – Object Lesson,” “Mission Work in British Columbia,” “Guardian” (written by Crosby), “Holiness in San Antonio,” “The Young Disciple,” “The Wealth of the West and the Safety of the Sabbath,” and “Calvary/Eternity.” Series also includes two embroidered and one non-embroidered fabric strips used as bookmarks.

ITEM LIST (with box-folder number, title, and dates):
3 [Oversized box] : Methodist Hymn Book, [186-] – [191-]
3 [Oversized box] : Holy Bible Maps, [186-] – [191-]
3 [Oversized box] : Hymns Ancient & Modern No.34, 1860 – 1871
3 [Oversized box] : A New Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, 1874
3 [Oversized box] : Holy Bible Old & New Testaments, [186-] – [191-]
3 [Oversized box] : Thomas Crosby Friendship’s Gift [embroidered bookmark], [186-] – [191-]
2-15 : Missionary resources – Ephemera, 1874 – [191-]
2-16 : Missionary resources – bookmarks, 1863 – [191-]

This series is comprised of official APEC results reports, handbooks, and ministerial joint statements; newspapers, news clippings, magazines, hand-written notes, stickers, postcards, and other materials. These materials were created, used, and saved during the APEC Leaders’ Meeting at the Museum of Anthropology in November 1997. Material generated from events such as campus and city protests that occurred because of APEC are also present in this collection. These materials include University of British Columbia (UBC) campus publications and Canadian and American newspapers and magazines; press releases from protest groups; materials on The 1997 People’s Summit on APEC, the Women’s Conference Against APEC, APEC-Alert, Democracy Street, Anti-APEC Summit, and other anti-APEC organisations; photocopies of pictures of graffiti at MOA; the Musqueam Speech that was cancelled by the Prime Minister’s Office; printouts of various web pages concerning APEC; and other materials.

Series consists of photographs and photocopies of pictures, explanatory poster, and a lighting plot for the Great Hall at The Museum of Anthropology relating to the “This Is Not An Exhibit” exhibit.

This series contains material relating to Ruus’s work with the Museum of Anthropology’s collection and the development of the visible storage display. The majority of the records focus on visible storage including research Ruus did on other institutions that made use of visible storage. Other subjects addressed in the records found in this series touch on miscellaneous issues related to the collection including such issues as storage, display and inventories.

The series is divided into two subseries:
A. Miscellaneous
B. Storage at the Museum Fur Völkerkunde Berlin

The records in this series relate to the planning and development of the 1976 Guatemalan Highlands textile exhibit. The records in the series are primarily visual materials, however other subjects include the design of wall texts for the exhibit and notes on the items to be included in the show. While slides are the predominant form of material in this series other record formats include notes, memoranda, negatives, and photographs.

Series consists of records relating to exhibits Karen Duffek curated or was involved with in another capacity. The records span the entire breadth of the intellectual creation process, including research, funding, administrative concerns, exhibition design and installation, and publication. The series includes supplemental information about artists’ careers, correspondences, contracts, final reporting, publications relating to artists and the exhibitions, grant applications, educational exhibit materials, transcripts of interviews and public lectures, event planning, budgets, photographs, as well as exhibition publication development.

The series is arranged into 12 sub-series, each one relating to a specific exhibition:
Sub-series 2-A: Robert Davidson: “The Abstract Edge” (2004-2005)
Sub-series 2-B: Edgar Heap of Birds: “Wheel: Overlays” (2007)
Sub-series 2-C: Mike Nicholl [Yahgulanaas]: “Meddling in the Museum” (2007-2008)
Sub-series 2-D: Willy White: “My Ancestors are still Dancing” (2002-2004)
Sub-series 2-E: Bill Reid: “Gathering Strength” (2000-2004)
Sub-series 2-F: Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy (1993-1994)
Sub-series 2-G: Carl Beam Exhibit (2011)
Sub-series 2-H: Nicholas Galanin: “Raven and the First Immigrant” (2010)
Sub-series 2-I: Annie Ross: “Forest One” (2012)
Sub-series 2-J: “A Green Dress: Objects, Memory, and the Museum” (2011-2012)
Sub-series 2-K: Ishiuchi Miyako “ひろしま Hiroshima” (2011-2012)
Sub-series 2-L: Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures (2010)
Sub-series 2-M: Bill Reid: Beyond Essential Form (1986)
Sub-series 2-N: Anspayaxw (Satellite Gallery, 2013)
Sub-series 2-O: Cindy Sherman meets Dzunuk'wa (Satellite Gallery 2014)

Series consists of records relating to the administrative functions of the Public Relations and Communications Office, the Museum of Anthropology, and the University of British Columbia. Includes records relating to various University of British Columbia offices and staff, Museum of Anthropology staff, and museum policies and procedures, as well as attendance figures. The series also includes records relating to the development, planning, and reporting of Public Relations and Communications Office activities, including job descriptions, activity plans, and summaries of public relations activities.

The series is divided into the following sub-series:

A. University of British Columbia and Museum of Anthropology offices and staff files, 1981-2006
B. Museum of Anthropology policies and procedures files, 1985-2003
C. Committees files, 1985-2004
D. Public Relations and Communications reports, and planning files, 1981-2005
E. Museum of Anthropology attendance files, 1983-2003

Series consists of textual records, photographs, and other graphic material related to Museum of Anthropology exhibits and the publicity generated for them by the Public Relations and Communications Office as well as external sources such as reviews.

Series consists of binders made up of photographs, quotations, background information and photocopied text from published sources. These binders were created to provide context to Koerner’s collection of Northwest Coast Indian art. These albums were compiled by Madeline Bronsdon Rowan, who was one of the curators at the Museum of Anthropology.

Series consists of photographic negatives and prints of items from Walter and Marianne Koerner's personal collection. Subjects include ceramics and First Nations art. It is likely that many of the photographs were taken by Eugene Horvath, who acted as a sort of personal assistant to Walter Koerner's collecting hobby. It is probable that most of the photographs in this series were made for use in the collection catalogues.

Series consists of records created, received, and/or used by Rosa Ho in her capacity as Curator of Art and Public Programmes. Rosa Ho was responsible for the planning and production of the public programmes, exhibitions, performances, lecture series, film series, panel discussions, seminars and other events hosted by and produced in whole or in part by the Museum of Anthropology. Series includes records that document the planning and production of exhibitions, public programmes and events.
Series contains correspondence, memoranda, press releases, publications, photographs, photographic negatives, proposals, policy drafts, performance reports, newspaper clippings, brochures, financial statements, itineraries, meeting minutes, agendas, event schedules, lists of artists and speakers, budgets, reports, artifact lists, contact lists, handwritten notes, scholarly articles, exhibition programs, sign-up sheets, museum layouts, performance reports, recipes, audio tapes, questionnaires, announcement cards, art work, insurance waiver forms, artist statements, funding application forms, videos, and video transcriptions, postcards, posters, handbills, and other materials relating to public programme planning.

The series is arranged in the following 3 sub-series:
A. General, national and international public programmes (1987-1999): Subseries consists of records relating to planning and production of general, national, and international public programmes and events.
B. British Columbia First Nations public programmes (1985-1999): Subseries consists of records relating to the planning of British Columbia First Nations public programmes.
C. Brochures, posters, press releases (1980-1997): Subseries consists of records relating to a variety of media related publications for exhibitions, seminars, concerts, and programs.

Series consists of slides representing the inventory of Central Coast Salish art photographed by Dr. Kew during his visits to various North American museums and the British Museum in preparation for the exhibition Visions of Power Symbols of Wealth: Central Coast Salish Sculpture and Engraving. The images illustrate a wide variety of traditional art objects including masks, adzes, spindle whorls, mat creasers, and totems poles, as well as various jewelry, instruments, and utensils. The series also includes two volumes of the Central Coast Salish Computerized Art Inventory, which provides a detailed physical description of each art object.

Series includes --

Album 1: Slides 03-560

Album 2:
Sheet 1-14 Slides 561-940
Sheet 15-32 [Uncatalogued Slides]

Album 3: [Uncatalogued Slides]

Box# 1: Central Coast Salish Computerized Art Inventory

The series contains slides relating to the exhibition Visions of Power Symbols of Wealth: Central Coast Salish Sculpture and Engraving. Images include exhibit views and various artifacts including masks, adzes, spindle whorls, mat creasers, and textiles.

Series includes --
Album 4: Slides 1-172
Album 5:
Sheet 1-2 Salish Exhibit 1 [exhibit views], Slides 1-1 – 1-29
Sheet 3-4 Salish Exhibit 2 [artifacts], Slides 2-1 – 2-39
Sheet 5-6 Salish Exhibit 3 [textiles, artifacts], Slides 3-1 – 3-35
Sheet 7 Salish Exhibit 4 [artifacts], Slides 4-1 – 4-19
Sheet 8-9 Salish Exhibit 5 [artifacts], Slides 5-1 – 5-36
Sheet 10-11 Salish Exhibit 6 [artifacts], Slides 6-1 – 6-35

Series consists of records created, received, and/or used by Lindy-Lou Flynn, a contract researcher hired by the Museum of Anthropology to work under the supervision of Rosa Ho. Lindy-Lou Flynn documented and conducted field-work on Pow-Wows in British Columbia and Washington State. The Pow-Wow research project focused on the role of Pow-Wows in the construction and perception of native identity. Records include a contract, funding and financial information, a final report, field notes, correspondences, colour slides, audio tapes and their summaries, a bibliography, artifacts, posters, a video, a photograph, signed release forms, scholarly articles, newspaper clippings, and brochures on the Pow-Wow 91 research project.

Series consists of records relating to the general administrative activities and responsibilities of Rosa Ho in her capacity as Curator of Art and Public Programmes. Series contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, and committee records.

This series consists of records relating to the development and administration of MOA’s Certificate in Museum Studies Program, which ran for a single season in 1997. Materials produced during the early stages of conceptualization and development date from the early 1990s, and include funding applications for a study on other museum studies programs, the results of this survey, other research materials, and multiple drafts of a report arguing for the need for a Museum Studies program at MOA. The majority of the records, dating from the mid- to late-nineties, document the administration of the program and the collaborative process of curriculum development. Materials include grant applications, program proposals, brochures, schedules of tasks and progress reports, agendas, curricula drafts and MOA staff comments on these drafts. Later records include final copies of syllabi and other teaching materials and evaluative reports on the 1997 program. Finally, the series also provides documentation of the decision to cancel the program in 1999.

This series documents the planning and implementation of several studies designed to assess the responses to MOA by visitors, members, and non-visitors. It includes records relating to a membership survey, focus group studies of visitors and non-visitors, surveys regarding specific exhibitions, studies of visitors’ responses to MOA’s use of digital media, and others. Records reflect the process of applying to conduct studies, of developing sets of questions, of implementing the studies and of using the information gathered to create reports. Materials include grant proposals, lists of questions, data sets, reports, reference materials, transcripts, correspondence, charts and graphs. The series also contains a reference file of previous studies completed at MOA.

This series demonstrates Krug’s contribution to institutional planning at MOA; it includes materials relating to MOA staff retreats, to a potential collaboration with the Singapore Art Museum, to the Museum’s research infrastructure, and to the drafting of a vision/ mission statement in preparation for MOA’s Museum Assistance Program funding application. The series contains correspondence, drafts, and research materials, handwritten notes.

Series consists of budgets, contracts, correspondence, minutes of committee meetings, speeches, lecture notes and other textual records relating to Halpin’s community service. Includes files relating to Halpin’s role as member of various committees and professional associations including the Canadian Ethnology Society and the Native Studies Art Association of Canada, files relating to Halpin’s participation in various conferences, seminars and workshops including those organized by the Canadian Museums Association, the British Columbia Provincial Museum and the Vancouver Institute, and files relating to Halpin’s role as private consultant for projects sponsored by organizations such as the National Museum of Man and the John Paul Getty Foundation. Halpin’s professional opinions were also sought in radio interviews such as the taped CBC interview in which Halpin discussed Bill Reid and his art. There are also two videocassette recordings of Halpin’s participation in the National Native Indian Artists’ Symposium and an event at the Banff Centre.

The series is divided into the following sub-series:

A. External Committees and Professional Associations, 1972-2000
B. Conferences, Public Lectures and Interviews, 1973-1999
C. Consultancy Files, 1975-1991