'Ksan Doors Item Number: 3685/1 a-d from the MOA: University of British Columbia
'Ksan Doors: four large cedar panels that join in pairs. Each panel is covered with carved figures and designs, with an uncarved border around the edges.
Commissioned in 1975 to be the outer door panels of the new museum building. Dedication ceremony held May 6, 1976. The panels were carved by ‘Ksan carvers Walter Harris, Earl Muldoe, Vernon Stephens and Art Sterritt. In the original installation, when the doors were closed the four panels resembled a bentwood box, symbolically representing MOA as a container of treasured possessions. The door panels were moved inside to the lobby during the MOA Renewal project, c. 2009 (at the entrance to the gift shop). The carving on the panels represents a Gitxsan origin story.