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Subseries consists of material produced by museum staff, among them Wilson Duff, Harry and Audrey Hawthorn, Marjorie Halpin, and Gloria Cranmer Webster. There is extensive material on Audrey Hawthorn’s Art of the Kwakiutl Indians. Included in this subseries are ca. 2000 photographs which were collected for possible use in this book. Photographs are numbered A38-A17206 with many numbers missing throughout. The majority of photographs are of wooden masks, but they are also of bowls, bentwood boxes, paddles, rattles, totem poles, talking sticks, headdresses and frontlets, wooden figures and miniatures, whistles, spoons, silver bracelets, argillite carvings, button blankets, chilkat blankets, cedar head and neck rings, woodworking tools, stone tools, and fish hooks. Other record forms included in this subseries include correspondence, notes and published materials.

The fonds consists mainly of slides, negatives, and other material relating to Sinhalese (Sri Lankan) and other South Asian masks held at numerous repositories worldwide, studied by Ames in the late 1950s and early 1980s. Subjects also include people, places, temples, ceremonies, and daily life in Sri Lanka, Bangkok, Cambodia, and Singapore. Numerous research articles reproduced by Ames, as well as travel brochures, are included. Material from student exhibits related to South Asian masks is also included.
The records have not been arranged into series since the entire fonds consists of closely related material.

Image of what appears to be a mask, featured painted, carved wood, feathers, shells, and fur.

File contains images of masks in the exhibit <i>Hidden Dimensions: Face Masking in East Asia</i>. The masks are described on the photographs to be "Chinese opera masks from Guizhou Province.

File consists of images showing objects exhibited during the exhibit titled <i>Museum Quality.</i> Objects depicted are masks, spoons, bowls, and sculptures.

File contains images of the open ceremony for an exhibit of Joe David's masks at the Museum of Anthropology, UBC.

File contains images of artifacts in the <i> The World of Spirits: Igbo Masks Exhibit</i>. These artifacts include masks, clothing, and shields.

File contains images of bentwood boxes and Northwest Coast masks housed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

File contains copies of correspondence between David Cunningham and the K'omoks First Nation regarding a mask that was lent to a travelling exhibit titled "Written in the Earth".

File contains images of masks, bowls, and textiles. In addition are correspondence with Joy Inglis and Marie Mauze.

File contains images of people, events, and/or artwork associated with and/or produced at the Freda Diesing School. There are also images of longhouses and totem poles.