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File includes one photograph of MOA Object ID A399 which is a bentwood box. The contents of this file were used to create object labels for MOA's Great Hall.

File includes one photograph of MOA Object ID A2524 which is a feast dish. The photograph is annotated with handwritten information about its original repository. The contents of this file were used to create object labels for MOA's Great Hall.

File includes one drawing and two photographs of MOA Object ID A1780 and A1781 which are carved figures. The photographs are annotated with handwritten information about their original repositories. The contents of this file were used to create object labels for MOA's Great Hall.

Display for the exhibit "The Trader and Tribal Crafts." Shows a musket, a drawing, and several write-ups.

Subseries consists of records relating to the 1993 exhibit, "A Rare Flower: A Century of Cantonese Opera in Canada." The exhibit began with an acquisition of historic Chinese Opera costumes from the Jin Wah Sin Music Society. The exhibit was first installed at MOA from May 16 to Nov. 7 1992, in Gallery 5. Elizabeth Johnson was both curator and coordinator. It was also a travelling exhibit with five other venues in Canada. It reopened in MOA in 1995, and later travelled to the McCord Museum. Aspects of the exhibit have been on display at numerous venues, including Hong Kong and Ghuangzhou in a panel exhibit. Subseries contains agendas, articles, artifact lists, books, business cards, agreements, correspondence, drawings, evaluations, exhibit labels, expenses, internal forms (exhibit proposal forms), financial records, guidelines, grant applications, memoranda, minutes of meetings, museum exhibit diagrams, permission forms, photographs, notes, plans, policies, press releases, proposals, publications (books and magazines), publicity records, receipts, reports, reproductions of newspaper ads and articles, research notes, schedules, slides, speaking notes, surveys, transcripts of research interviews, handbills, drafts, visitor surveys and videos.

This exhibit draws on MOA’s collection of Cantonese opera costumes and accessories, photographs, news clippings, and other materials that document how Cantonese Opera has remained a vibrant art form in Canada from the 1880’s onward.

File contains 18 comment books from the exhibit A Rare Flower: A Century of Cantonese Opera in Canada, from May 16 - November 7, 1993

Translations from A Rare Flower Comment books [1991?]
A Rare Flower 1993
A Rare Flower May 16 – July 8/93
A Rare Flower July 8 - Sept.3/93
A Rare Flower Sept.3 - Nov.6/93
A Rare Flower (Kelowna) Jan.18 - Mar.15/94
A Rare Flower May 10 – June 13/94
A Rare Flower (Edmonton) June 15 - July2/94
A Rare Flower (Edmonton) July 7 - 17/94
A Rare Flower (Manitoba) Sep.1 - Nov.12/94
A Rare Flower (Glenbow) Dec.28/94 - Feb.25/95
A Rare Flower (AGGU) Apr. 9 – May 11/95
A Rare Flower (Vancouver) June 7 - 17/95
A Rare Flower July 17 - Aug.8/95
A Rare Flower Aug.8 - 24/95
A Rare Flower Aug.24 - Oct.15/95
A Rare Flower (McCord) Dec. 7, 1995 – Feb. 4, 1996