Item is a photograph of three young women, and two young girls standing in ceremonial dress (button blankets; carved and painted [wolf?] mask; and headdresses made of woven cedar, weasel(?), abalone, and eagle feathers). They are gathered for an event celebrating British Columbia's centennial in Alert Bay in 1958. Daisy Neel is in the centre wearing the frontlet and her twin sisters are the young girls in front of her. Emma Sewid [Seewid; Seaweed?] and Mabel Sewid [Seewid; Seaweed?] are on either sides of them.
Item is a photograph of a procession of people (men, women, children) in ceremonial dress (button blankets, headdresses) walking away from the ferry terminal dock [?] in Alert Bay. The procession is led by Mungo Martin and Daisy Neel. A man dressed in regular clothes, smoking a pipe looks on from the left.
File includes two drawings and eight photographs of MOA Object ID A50007 a, b, and c which are interior house posts as well as images of the village from where they came. The photographs are annotated with handwritten and typed information about their original repositories. The contents of this file were used to create object labels for MOA's Great Hall.
File includes one drawing and two photographs of MOA Object ID A50041 which is a house front totem pole. The contents of this file were used to create object labels for MOA's Great Hall.
Sub subseries contains Don Bain's working files, used during the course of his Totem Pole Files creation. Record types include notes, photocopies of archival records, and correspondence related to the project.
File contains records related to budgeting of the Collections Area at MOA. File contains minutes and handwritten notes from the Collection Meetings and Exec Meetings, correspondence, memorandums, area budgets, and job descriptions
File contains records related to a repatriation of several objects back to the originating community in the Canada. File contains agendas, minutes, and memos from the Repatriation Committee; MOA’s mandates, general principles, and principles regarding requests for the transfer of cultural property; correspondence; agendas, minutes, and memos from meetings with the community; and MOA’s internal records on the object.
File contains records on repatriation. Files contains press releases from other institutions; correspondence; MOA’s guidelines on repatriation of Canadian First Peoples’ cultural materials housed in MOA (1999); agendas, minutes, and memorandums from the Repatriation Committee; minutes from meetings with communities about repatriation claims and museum inventories related to those claims
File contains MOA’s guidelines on repatriation of Canadian First Peoples’ cultural materials housed in MOA (1995), speech notes, notes and memorandums from the forum, and flyers
