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Series includes photographs and other graphic materials related to the editing of the book

Sub subseries consists of records related to Clavir’s training of conservation interns at the Museum of Anthropology. Much of the funding for internships came from the Museum Assistance Programme (MAP) which was established by the former National Museums of Canada (currently supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage). The sub subseries also includes records related to a search for funding through MAP and provincial government sources for a new conservator position, the establishment of a laboratory conservator position (1993), as well as student reports on internships sponsored by both MAP and the Getty Conservation Institute.

Included are: correspondence, memoranda, reports, application forms, cost summaries, funding contracts, handwritten notes, and one published discussion paper to help develop policy for conservation assistance through the Museum Assistance Programme.

Sub subseries consists of records related to Clavir’s involvement with the visible storage area of the museum, predominantly from a conservation perspective. Most files relate to a new case in the Kwakwaka’wakw area, as it was the end result of a plan to upgrade the entire visible storage area.

Included are: copies of early articles and reports, grant and architect proposals, staff meeting minutes, photographs, and development & working files.

This sub subseries includes images on the following subjects:

• Exhibitions of the Museum of Anthropology from the 1950s through the 1960s
• Staff and students working in and packing up the Museum of Anthropology's old location in the library basement
• items being moved into the new Museum of Anthropology
• Photographs of masks and other objects for the Claude Lévi-Strauss book "The Way of the Masks"
• Photographs of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City

Sub subseries contains the Totem Pole Files, as put together by Don Bain. Material in the Totem Pole Files was compiled by Don Bain from the MOA Archives, UBC Special Collections, UBC Library, the Royal British Columbia Museum, the British Columbia Archives, and the Department of Indian Affairs, as well as information from MOA staff. Record types include photocopies of photographs, catalogues, accession files, research files, technical files, historical correspondence, internal memos and reports, and committee meeting minutes. Most records collected by Don Bain date from between 1920 and 1980.

Sub subseries consists of reproductions of photographs of totem poles and other carvings from the MOA Great Hall which were used to create object labels. Many of the photographs show the carvings in their place of origin.

Sub subseries consists of records related to courses taught by Clavir at the Museum of Anthropology such as those for the Centre for Continuing Education, guidelines and applications for internship funding through the Teaching Enhancement Fund, and syllabi (1991-2001) for ANTH 431, a course she taught from 1991-1992. Records include course outlines, teaching notes, memoranda, applications and conservation forms.

This sub subseries contains images on the following subjects:

• Mungo Martin and Abaya Martin at UBC
• Raising of the Mungo Martin Memorial Pole
• Museum of Anthropology's exhibition at "Man and His World", 1969-1970
• Reassembly of the Haida House on the grounds of the new Museum of Anthropology building
• Totem poles being moved into the new Museum of Anthropology building
• The Museum of Anthropology building in various states of construction