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This exhibit was the first public display of drawings and poems by Nuu-chah-nuulth artist Ron Hamilton.

Subseries consists of notes pertaining to the exhibit “Wearing Politics, Fashioning Commemoration: Factory Printed Cloths of Ghana”. This was a student exhibit by Michelle Willard. The exhibit was coordinated by Elizabeth Johnson. This exhibit was installed at MOA in February 2004.

This exhibit was created by UBC graduate student Michelle Willard, and housed a collection of printed cloths that Ghanaians’ considered to be highly significant and shows how they are worn in Ghana to proclaim political loyalties and commemorate important events.

Sub-series consists of textual records for the West Coast art exhibit organized by Ron Hamilton and Marjorie Halpin. Records include Hamilton’s biography, exhibit correspondence, project proposal and exhibit planning. Also included is a transcript from a taped interview of Ron Hamilton by Karen Duffek in 1989.

Sub-series consists of textual records and graphic images related to a project by Halpin and Ron Hamilton that attempted to document the lineage of a native community through photographs. Included are correspondence requesting the use of photographs, grant application forms, and photocopies of potential photographs for the project.

Sub-series consists of textual records related to attempts to receive funding to replicate West Coast artifacts for the Museum of Anthropology collection.

Consists of photographs, in the form of negatives, prints and slides, taken during the period that Jensen and Powell lived and worked in the Western Gitxsan villages. The images include photographs that were used to illustrate the language books being produced, and other photographs that documented the culture and way of living in these communities.

Subseries consists of a photograph of Elizabeth Johnson with a group of individuals standing in front of the exhibit What is Canadian cultural property?

Subseries consists of images from the exhibition When World Collide.

Subseries contains records related to the <i>Where are the Children?</i> exhibit held by MOA. Curated by Jeff Thomas, and circulated by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in Ottawa, this exhibition presented a series of historical photographs documenting the history of residential schools in Canada. The records include correspondence related to exhibit loans, temporary exhibit preliminary and finalized designs and a reference manual for setting up the exhibition.

Subseries consists of photographic slides of the Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy exhibition held from June to December of 2002.

The records in this sub-series relate to Willy White’s 2002 exhibition on Chilkat and Raven’s Tail weaving, My Ancestors Are Still Laughing. During his exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology, Willy White began weaving a gwishalaayt, or Chilkat robe. The weaving was later finished at his home in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. In 2004, a “taking off of the loom” ceremony and feast was held to celebrate the completion of the gwishalaayt. Though Elizabeth Johnson was the curator for this exhibition, Duffek worked closely with her, and the files relate to Duffek’s involvement with in the process. File contents relate to exhibition research and planning, draft exhibit texts, correspondences, transcripts of interview with the weavers, and recordings of the final ceremony.

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.

Subseries consists of records related to the graphic design for the Without Masks exhibit, on display at the Museum of Anthropology May 2 - November 2, 2014. The exhibit was curated by Cuban poet, art critic and curator Orlando Hernández.