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Sub-series consists of textual records from the Museum of Anthropology project supporting the construction of a long house in Seattle, Washington, by the Squamish native community. Includes correspondence, contract proposals, the proposed site plan, press releases, and newspaper articles.

Subseries consists of files on specific employees, on positions and on the day to day life of museum staff members. A staff member is generally considered a paid employee versus a volunteer who works without pay. The records in this subseries consist of curriculum vitas, memoranda, notes, correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, ephemera, time sheets, receipts, account statements, position postings, and appointment notices.

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.

Subseries consists of records relating to staff retreats from 1978 to 1982. The records included in this series are notes.

Subseries consists of material related to the production of Stewart's book Stone, bone, antler & shell : artifacts of the Northwest coast, first published in 1996. This book was based on Stewart's earlier book Artifacts of the Northwest Coast Indians.

This subseries relates to Ruus’s investigation of the use of visible storage at the Museum Fur Völkerkunde in Berlin. Records in this series consist of slides, negatives and photographs.

Sub-series consists of textual records including the report by Lindsey Rivers titled “An Evaluation of the Museum of Anthropology Summer Internship Programme” which was submitted for Anthropology 431, Museum Principles and Techniques, April 1983.

Sub-series consists of records related to Cunningham's role in the execution of the student exhibits for the course Anthropology 431. Records include student reports, exhibit schedules, course syllabus, and exhibit labels.

Subseries consists of research material created by Sawyer, as well as his students, regarding Northwest coast artifacts. The majority of this research pertains to a specific type of artifact known as the “Jenna Cass” mask. This portrait mask was created by the Haida First Nations, and is known for its colouring and pronounced lebret piercing. Textual materials in this subseries include reports, iconic analysis, handwritten notes, memos, correspondence, and photocopies of articles related to Jenna Cass and other artifacts research. Graphic materials include photographs, slides, film negatives, and drawings of Jenna Cass masks. Other materials not related to the Jenna Cass research include photocopies of published articles related to Northwest coast artifacts.

ref # 13-1-D

Subseries consists of photographs documenting various Sunday programs at the MOA and the children attending them. Programs include those for the visually impaired, related to visible storage, related to Japanese heritage and culture, the Punch and Judy show, Evelyn Roth’s giant salmon and others that are unidentified. Photographs were taken by McLennan, Jean Hamilton and Stephen Inglis.

ref # 1-2-A

Subseries contains two files containing records related to the exhibit about the artist Jane Ash Poitras.