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Audrey Hawthorn (MOA Curator) fonds Sous-série organique Anglais
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Communication and service: museums and institutions

Subseries consists primarily of correspondence with other museums, galleries and associations. The material in this subseries pertains to a multiplicity of functions. Records in this subseries take the form of correspondence, ephemera, account statements, questionnaires, minutes, memoranda and newspaper clippings.

Non-staff research, publications for MOA

Subseries consists of research or publications by people who are not part of MOA as staff, but who may have produced something for the museum or who may have written on subjects relevant to the activities of the museum. Authors include: Franz Boas, Guy P. Buchholtzer, Eric Arthur, Leonard B. Kimbrell, and the Royal Ontario Museum. Records in this subseries include photocopies of articles, various publications, notes and correspondence.

Inquiries and requests

Subseries consists of photograph requests and other public inquiries about totem poles, baskets, coins, masks, stones, shell and ivory statues, pottery, and other items held or services provided by the museum. These inquiries are in the form of letters to the museum or telephone calls, the latter which are recorded on a museum form.

Acquisitions and documentation

Subseries consists of a wide variety of records relating to the acquisition and documentation of collections. Material includes, but is not limited to: the notebooks of R.A. Brooks, Totem Pole subject files, H.R. MacMillan correspondence, H.R. MacMillan Museum Purchase Fund, gifts received by the museum, collections lists, collections receipts, collections summaries, L. and T. Koerner Museum Purchase Fund, W.C. Koerner donations and his Museum Purchase Fund, correspondence with Florence Fyfe-Smith, artist biographical files, possible acquisitions and files on objects A50000 ADCD – A50045. Photographs are also included in the series.

Special events

Subseries consists of files relating to nine special events: the Indian Costume Show (1950), Open House Day (1955), the opening of Totem Park, the Henry Speck (Ozistalis) show (1964), a talk given on aboriginal medicine (1966), Bill Holm’s Indian Dance Group (1967), the opening ceremony for the new museum (1974-1979), the Raven Celebration (1980), the ‘Ksan Poleraising (1980-1981), and the dedication of the museum doors (1976). The records in this subseries consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, memoranda, photographic negatives, ephemera, plans, budgets, financial statements, receipts, a copy of the June 9, 1976 edition of UBC Reports, and a copy of Canadian Art Review VI/I/1979.

General correspondence

Subseries consists correspondence and communication between Hawthorn and individuals who were not representatives of another museum. There are several General Correspondence files, divided by year, and these consist primarily of people requesting that Audrey Hawthorn identify and price various objects, to recommend where to purchase NWC material, to speak at functions, and of requests for bibliographies. This subseries differs from subseries 10-B in that although the files may contain inquiries and requests, they often contain other types of correspondence as well. Record forms include correspondence, press releases, and ephemera.

Staff

Subseries consists of files on specific employees, on positions and on the day to day life of museum staff members. A staff member is generally considered a paid employee versus a volunteer who works without pay. The records in this subseries consist of curriculum vitas, memoranda, notes, correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, ephemera, time sheets, receipts, account statements, position postings, and appointment notices.

Volunteers

Subseries consists of a single file, “In-Service Education for Museum Associates” which relates both to the development of a policy for the broader education of museum associates in the fields of anthropology and archaeology, as well as documents which pertain to the public interaction training for volunteers. Records within this subseries include programs, memoranda and policy documents. Also included in this subseries is an audio cassette entitled “Audrey Hawthorn talks to Associates— History of MOA” 72.

Staff research, publications and productions

Subseries consists of material produced by museum staff, among them Wilson Duff, Harry and Audrey Hawthorn, Marjorie Halpin, and Gloria Cranmer Webster. There is extensive material on Audrey Hawthorn’s Art of the Kwakiutl Indians. Included in this subseries are ca. 2000 photographs which were collected for possible use in this book. Photographs are numbered A38-A17206 with many numbers missing throughout. The majority of photographs are of wooden masks, but they are also of bowls, bentwood boxes, paddles, rattles, totem poles, talking sticks, headdresses and frontlets, wooden figures and miniatures, whistles, spoons, silver bracelets, argillite carvings, button blankets, chilkat blankets, cedar head and neck rings, woodworking tools, stone tools, and fish hooks. Other record forms included in this subseries include correspondence, notes and published materials.

Planning

Subseries consists of material primarily relating to various committees which Audrey Hawthorn was a part of during her tenure at the museum. Records include those of the Committee on Museum (1942-1949), the Museum Programme Committee (1969-1976) the senate committee, and the Users Committee/Planning Coordinating Committee (1973). These committees dealt largely with issues surrounding the collection, budget and human resources. The subseries also contains notebooks used by Audrey Hawthorn from 1949-1971, which focus on a wide range of subjects including artifact drawings. The subseries consists of notes, minutes, financial statements, correspondence, budgets, memoranda, ephemera, spiral bound notebooks, and reports.

Planning

Subseries consists of material relating to a commercial tour that focused on Kwakiutl land and culture. The records in this subseries take the form of notes, correspondence, and memoranda.

Loans out

This subseries consists of records created and received during the process of loaning the museum’s materials out to other people or organizations. This subseries includes both loans that were successfully made and those which were only proposed. Form of records includes correspondence, borrower’s agreements, notes, memoranda, invoices, and ephemera.

Preservation/conservation and storage

Subseries consists of material relating to the treatment and housing of objects in the museum’s collections. Files include records from the BC Totem Pole Preservation Committee (1953-1965) and material reflecting the planning and execution of visible storage. Files also include records documenting the fumigation of wooden objects in the collection and general care of totem poles. The records in this subseries consist of formal recommendations, correspondence, committee notes, receipts, proposals, reports, lists of expenditures, notes, newspaper clippings, photocopies student papers, memoranda, reports, plans, purchase orders, invoices and ephemera.

Building projects and plans

Subseries consists primarily of material relating to the construction of a new museum building in the mid-1970s. There are also records regarding earlier proposals for new museum facilities which never materialized. There is material relating to the design and installation of the ‘Ksan doors and the Koerner Gallery. Record forms include correspondence, design plans (housed in the map cabinet), design team meeting minutes, budget notes and contracts.

Documentation of cultures

Subseries consists of material that documents cultures rather than specific objects which may be found in the museum’s collection. The records in this subseries primarily take the form of published material, but general reference material is also included. This subseries at one point also included Audrey Hawthorn’s reference photograph collection of ca. 4000 items: 35mm slides, various black and white prints and negatives. These items however have since been amalgamated with the MOA General Photograph Collection.

Building maintenance

Subseries consists of material relating to the upkeep of the buildings used by the museum. Records in this subseries consist of correspondence, memoranda, plans and financial documents.

Loan requests, correspondence and planning

Subseries consists of materials which predominantly document correspondence between Audrey Hawthorn and various individuals regarding the loan of the materials or services to the museum. This material reflects the more formal stage of interaction such as letters initiating contact with relevant parties and expressions of gratitude rather than practical information regarding the transfer of objects. The subseries also contains some information related to planning for exhibitions. The records in this subseries take the form of correspondence, memoranda, notes, sketches, and 14 photocopies of maps which have been annotated.

Memberships

Subseries consists of information pertaining to procedures for the acceptance of new members to the museum as well as correspondence with some notable members of the museum such as Arthur Erickson and John Koerner. Records in this subseries include correspondence and memoranda.

Temporary exhibits

Subseries consists of material on exhibits, both at the UBC Museum of Anthropology and elsewhere. Files include material on the following exhibits: People of the Potlatch, The Trader and the Goods of Trade, Roy Vickers. These files include correspondence relating to possible exhibitions of oriental material and of Japanese, Greek, Roman and Etruscan material. The records in this subseries take the form of correspondence, memoranda, notes, sketches, news paper clippings, ephemera, plans and photographs.

Film and video screening

Subseries consists of materials focusing on information regarding the borrowing and acquisition of films by the museum with a specific focus on the film “Switzer Unlimited”. The records in this subseries take the form of notes and correspondence.

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