File contains sixteen negatives taken by Barwick at an excavation at Beach Grove in the Fraser River delta in June of 1957, likely done under the guidance of Charles Borden, a Lecturer and later Professor of Archaeology at UBC who studied the Beach Grove site from ca. 1955 to 1958. Notes on the envelope indicate these negatives include images of D. N. Abbott, Colin McCafferty, and Nansi Swayze.

This file includes a letter from B. Robert Butler, an archaeologist with the university of Washington. It appears to be Butler's reply to an initial letter from Wilson Duff in relation to an article published by Butler. The text focuses on Butler's theses related to "pre-contact" artistic traditions in the region between the Fraser and Columbia River Valleys. Butler discusses materials (clay, basketry, and stone) and motifs

This file contains a letter and attached report written by Wilson Duff at the request of Barrie Reynolds, chief ethnologist at the National Museum of Man [Canadian Museum of History]. The contents relate to the valuation of a collection of Northwest Coast cultural belongings and other items that a Mr. Birmingham intended to sell to the museum. Duff provides an overarching analysis of the collection and comments on the discrepancies between (1) museum valuation and its emphasis on ethnological information, and (2) an art market in which investors view objects and belongings based on aesthetic qualities and their potential as investment pieces.

This file includes a letter from Don E. Dumond, with the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Along with the letter, Dumond includes an article he wrote titled "A Note on the Prehistory of Southwestern Alaska".

File contains images of the exhibit <i>Changing Tides : The Development of Archaeology in the Fraser Delta Region</i>.

This file contains letters from Herb Taylor to Wilson Duff and Harry Hawthorn. In the letter to Duff, Taylor seeks feedback on a map to be included in the publication "Tribal Distribution of the Lower Northwest Coast".

The letter to Hawthorn concerns fieldwork and library research that Taylor performed under the direction of Hawthorn, as well as a list of proposed publications based on this research. In the latter, Taylor discusses extensive archaeological excavations that were undertaken on Vancouver and Quadra Islands. Taylor notes that notes and maps from the excavations were turned over to the Howay-Reid collection at UBC, with copies of fieldnotes sent to the BC Provincial Museum, the National Museum in Ottawa, and to Charles Borden at UBC. Taylor also undertook ethnological interviews with the Wei Wai Kai First Nation at Cape Mudge, and indicates that tapes were sent to Duff at the BC Provincial Museum and a report provided to Hawthorn at UBC. The research proposal for this work is included in the file, along with Taylor's curriculum vitae

Additional materials include a more detailed map of the traditional territories of First Nations along the Fraser Delta, Salish Sea, and Pacific Coast of Washington and Oregon. A bibliography for the course Anthropology 461B: Indians of the Southern Northwest Coast is also provided.

The newsletter contains 6 articles about the museum as well as photographs, facsimiles of artworks, general visitor information, and a list of donors. Subjects include the exhibition From Under the Delta: Wet-Site Archaeology in the Lower Fraser Region of British Columbia, a course about ceramics taught by Carol Mayer at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, funding generated by the Anthropology Shop, repatriation of artifacts to the Jacks family of the Tseycum First Nation, funding for two new new multimedia projects by Dr. Marjorie Halpin, and an oral history workshop. Also included are a Calendar of Events and a memorial to Barbara Bethel, UBC/MOA security officer.

This file contains a report on excavations at Marpole [c̓əsnaʔəm] prepared for the course Anthropology 401. It describes the work of Charles Borden and five students, and refers to the content of fellow students' reports. Duff describes the purpose of the project as being to reconstruct the cultural context of the site's former inhabitants.

The report describes environmental context at length, and also discusses site history and context at the time of the excavation. Ancestral remains and objects removed from the site are listed, including analysis of ancestral remains. Sketches include two maps of the immediate area with streets and property lines indicated. A third sketch provides a West-facing profile of the excavation with strata.