Includes a handwritten note that was inside a glass C-Plus soda bottle, and found stored in the mount for gyảaGang House Frontal Totem Pole (A50001) in the Great Hall. The note was written and signed by individuals involved in preparing the new museum building and its collections on January 30, 1976 including Audrey and Harry Hawthorn, Michael Ames, Salma Mawani, Audrey Shane, and Anthony Carter. The "message in a bottle" was re-discovered November 25, 2020 when the poles were being removed from the Great Hall in preparation for seismic upgrade construction.
Series consists of materials related to the Museum of Anthropology's physical building and spaces. Record types include newspaper clippings, press releases, pamphlets, flyers, invitations, and programmes. The series is divided into 5 files, grouping together materials related to specific features of MOA's building and spaces:
- Koerner Ceramics Gallery
- Outdoor Sculpture Complex
- The Raven and the First Men
- The K'san Doors
Individuals in photograph from left to right: Donovan Miller (UBC Chancellor), Walter Koerner, Douglas Kenny (UBC President), Marianne Koerner, Art Sterritt, Earl Muldoe, unknown, unknown, Walter Harris (only partially shown).
A group gathered in front of the K'san doors for their dedication ceremony. Individuals in this photo from viewer's left to right: Douglas Kenny (UBC President), Norla Stiles Larson, Art Sterritt, Earl Muldoe, unidentified, unidentified, Walter Harris, Neil Sterritt.
A group gathered in front of the K'san doors for their dedication ceremony. Individuals in this photo from viewer's left to right: Walter Koerner, Douglas Kenny (UBC President), Marianne Koerner, Art Sterritt, Earl Muldoe, unidentified, unidentified, Walter Harris. Neil Sterritt is far right, but cut off.
A group gathered in front of the K'san doors for their dedication ceremony. Individuals in this photo from viewer's left to right: Donovan Miller (UBC Chancellor), Walter Koerner, Douglas Kenny (UBC President), Marianne Koerner, Art Sterritt, Earl Muldoe, unidentified, unidentified
A group gathered in front of the K'san doors for their dedication ceremony. Individuals in this photo from viewer's left to right: Donovan Miller (UBC Chancellor), Walter Koerner, Douglas Kenny (UBC President), Marianne Koerner, Art Sterritt, Earl Muldoe, unidentified, unidentified, Walter Harris
Photos of students exhibition sin 1976 and/or 1977, as well as two photos from the 1977 Roy Vickers exhibition, Beginnings.
Pamphlet and commemorative button from the 50th anniversary celebration of MOA's Volunteer Associates
Item consists of a recording of the Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) book 2. Read by the following people and in these dialects: Alice and Lawrence Paul (Hesquiat or Heskwiat), Archie Thompson (Toquaht, Toqwaht, Tokwath, or Toquat), and James Nicolaye (Ka:’yu:’k’t’h’, Kyuquot, Kyukuot, or Kyuguot).
Item consists of recordings of the Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) math book and of Our World, Our ways: T’aat’aaqsapa cultural dictionary, read in the related language Nitinaht (Ditidaht, Nitinat, or Nitinath), from the same language family (Wakashan) as Nuu-chah-nulth.
Item consists of a recording of the Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) book 2. Read by Charlie Watts in the c?is?aa?ath? (sis sha ahtah or Tseshaht) dialect.
Item consists of a recording of the Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) dictionary, read by H. Robinson, Jessie Hamilton, Josie Thompson, and Harold Little. Read in the following dialects: Hupa?asath (Hupichesath, Opetchesaht, or Huupichasath), Uchucklesaht (Uchuklesaht or Yuchiklasath), and Ahousaht (Ahousath or Ahousat).