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This committee was appointed by the Planning and Coordinating Committee to do the detailed work of planning. The Museum Programme Committee was sub-committee of the User’s Committee.

This university committee identified the need for a new museum facility that would be linked to the department of Anthropology and Sociology.

The records in this sub-series relate to the development and implementation of the exhibition curated by Jennifer Kramer titled Kesu': The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer. Records in the sub-series also relate to the development and publication of Kesu': The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer, authored by Jennifer Kramer and published in 2012 by Douglas & McIntyre. The exhibition featured the artwork of Doug Cranmer (1927-2006), a leading practitioner of Northwest Coast Kwakwaka’wakw art. Kesu' took place at the Museum of Anthropology from March 17 to September 3, 2012, the Museum at Campbell River in Campbell River, BC from October 19, 2010 to February 17, 2013 and the U’mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay, BC from May 11 to October 8, 2013. Kramer received the 2012 British Columbia Museums Association's Museums in Motion Award of Merit for the exhibition. The book designer Jessica Sullivan received the 2012 Alcuin Society's award for First Place in the pictorial category.

Files in the sub-series consist of exhibition and publication planning notes and related correspondence, research materials pertaining to the career and life of Doug Cranmer, interview transcripts, photographs, funding proposals, object loan agreement forms, photography permission agreements, interview release forms, contracts and financial records, marketing plans, book drafts, exhibit text and labels, promotional materials and printouts of digital photographs of art work.

Documentation of conservation of the museum's massive carvings.

Subseries consists of records collected or created by Don Bain during the course of his Massive Carvings Documentation Project. This project took place in the early to mid 1990s. The Massive Carvings Documentation Project was intended to compile information directly related to the poles and massive carvings in the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) collection into a set of Totem Pole Files. The Totem Pole Files were intended to be accessible to MOA staff, volunteers, students, and the general public. The subseries is divided into two sub subseries:

a. Totem pole files
b. Working files

Series contains Stewart's first book, unpublished, from 1963. It is based on lectures at the University of British Columbia. Includes a note about the creation of the book that Stewart added in 2005.

Series consists of material related to the production of Stewart's book Indian Fishing: Early Methods of the Northwest Coast, published in 2008.

Subseries consists of material related to the production of Stewart's book Indian Artifacts of the Northwest Coast, which was first published in 1973.

Subseries consist of material related to the production of Stewart's book Robert Davidson: Haida Printmaker, published in 1979.

Subseries consists of material related to the production of Stewart's book Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, first published in 1979.

Subseries consists of material related to teh production of Stewart's book Looking at Totem Poles, first published in 1993.

Subseries consists of material related to the production of Stewart's book Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians, first published in 1984.

Subseries consists of material related to the production of Stewart's book The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt: Captive of Maquinna, first published in 1995. This book contains the previously published narrative written by Jewitt (published in 1816), with annotations and illustrations by Stewart.

Subseries consists of material related to the production of Stewart's book Stone, bone, antler & shell : artifacts of the Northwest coast, first published in 1996. This book was based on Stewart's earlier book Artifacts of the Northwest Coast Indians.

Subseries consists of material related to the illustrations that Stewart made for Wilson Duff's book Images: Stone.

Subseries consists of material realted to illustrations done by Stewart for the book Wisdom of the elders: Native traditions on the Northwest Coast by Ruth Kirk.

Two printed maps drawn by Stewart, of Quadra Island and Haida Gwaii. Both include illustrations of animals and geographic and cultural aspects of the islands.

Subseries consists of material related to illustrations done by Stewart for a paper titled "Antiquity," writteb by Dale Cross.

Series includes audio and video interviews with Agnes Alfred and other members of the Kwakwaka'wakw community