Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Sous-fonds consists of records documenting the work of the Collections unit at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA). Material includes object acquisition and loan records, in-house and traveling exhibition planning documents, collection images, artist and object research, contracts, permission forms, correspondence, insurance documents and other administrative records. Records of this sous-fonds are arranged into the following series:

Administration and planning
Loans
Acquisitions
Insurance
Collections documentation
Replicas
Contracts and permission forms

Collections Area

From Under the Delta

133-01-01-B-a
Sub subseries

Part of Collections Care, Management and Access fonds

Don Bain Massive Carvings Documentation Project

133-01-05-C
Subseries
[1991?]-[1996?]

Part of Collections Care, Management and Access fonds

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

Totem pole files

133-01-05-C-a
Sub subseries
[1991?]-[1996?]

Part of Collections Care, Management and Access fonds

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.

Administration

133-01-08-01
Subseries
1993 - 2004

Part of Collections Care, Management and Access fonds

Subseries contains records related with administrative tasks of the Collections area

Allison Cronin

Photography and Use Request

133-01-08-01-02
File
1996

Part of Collections Care, Management and Access fonds

File contains records on a photography and use request of MOA’s objects for a ceremony. File contains forms, correspondence, and catalogue records on the objects

Allison Cronin

Repatriation_Policy

133-01-08-02-04
File
1995

Part of Collections Care, Management and Access fonds

File contains records on MOA’s repatriation policy. File contains MOA’s guidelines on repatriation of Canadian First Peoples’ cultural materials housed in MOA (1995), memorandums, and notes from meetings

Allison Cronin

Musqueam Bay