Correspondence and minutes of negotiations

Contains among other things: The Results of the Sepik Expedition and the Future Exploration of Kaiser Wilhelmsland, 1914 The Surveying Airship Expedition to New Guinea, 1914 Estimate for the Economic Plan of the German Surveying Airship Exhibition in San Francisco, 1915

Contains among other things: Mutiny on the German steamer "Lotte Menzell" (report SMS "Hertha", transcript), Oct. 1912 Scientific expedition on the Empress Augusta River in German New Guinea (report SMS "Condor" with 11 photos, transcript), Jan. 1913 Unrest in Liberia - Protection of the German population by SMS "Bremen", "Eber" and "Panther". (Report SMS "Bremen", transcript), Jan. 1913

E. Kriele to J. Spiecker and the deputation; "The Current Situation of the New Guinea Mission and the Resulting Tasks for its Continuation", E. Kriele, 25 p., hs.

Contains among other things: Monthly Shipments of Ceylon Black Tea to all Ports in 1908-1909. Petition of the Pflanzerverein von Samoa to the German Reichstag, Apia, Nov. 1911.

Contains: - In the Federal Foreign Office, colonial dept, later Imperial Colonial Office (26 p.); - As Imperial Judge in German New Guinea (13 p.); - First stay in Samoa (16 p.); - Second stay in Samoa (12 p.); - (unknown author:) "Dr. Schnees Samoa years" (14 p.)); - Back at the Federal Foreign Office, Kolonial-Abt (9 p.); - Colonial Advisory Council at the Embassy in London (21 p.); - Lecture by the South Pole researcher Sir Ernest Shackleton for Wilhelm II at Villa Dernburg (3 p.)); - As Governor in German East Africa (10 p.); - Characterization of the Great Admiral of Tirpitz (4 p.); - Speech of the Minister of National Defence, Smuts, in the House of Representatives in Cape Town on September 10, 1914 (6 p.); - Scout Report of the Goanese and Government employee Ribeiro on his journey from German East Africa to Germany during the war (45 p.).); - Speech by the Governor on the occasion of Wilhelm II's birthday to officers and crews of the garrison thong (2 p.); - Excerpts from the report of the government adviser, Government Building Councillor Brandes, on the activities of the civil administration during the war in German East Africa (p. 14).); - Return from East Africa (18 p.); - My relationship with Lettow-Vorbeck (46 p.); - Prince Henry of the Netherlands (1 p.); - General Groener's statements on leading personalities of the First World War. World War II (8 p.); - State Secretary Solf on Baron von Eckardtstein, former Counsellor of the Embassy in London (3 p.); - Talk with Foreign Minister Simons (5 p.); - Schnee on Wirth, Reich Minister for Reconstruction (5 p.); - Rosen, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (2 p.); - Admiral v. Truppel, Governor of Kiautschou (2 p.); - Violations of international law during the war in German East Africa (2 p.).

Contains: Corrected manuscript

Contains: Carton 2: - 1 stone tool with wooden handle - 1 stone tool, longer, damaged handle - 1 stone tool, broken wooden handle - 2 stone tools without wooden handle - 1 stone tool with short broken handle - 1 axe, Stone Age, New Guinea - 1/2 coconut in bast stand (drinking vessel) - 1 wooden vessel, Edge decorated (cup) - 1 animal head-like painted piece of wood, end broken off - 1 brown ribbon with beads - 1 ribbon turquoise/brown - 1 ribbon with light, flat jewellery parts - 1 bast jewellery part with straps and fringes - 1 part of bone/horn? beige with a smaller hole at the end - 1 stick with a fibrous frond - 1 fly swatter from Samoa - 1 fly swatter with feathers - 1 bast mini hat - 1 bone-drawn hard strand (stalk-like) - 2 light-coloured worked stones - 2 light-coloured stones with a hole in the middle

Contains: Box 1: - 2 pieces of ebony wood (1 of which with "East Africa" labels) - 1 comb, Guinea - 1 "clock" (round part with hands, necklace?) - 2 pieces of wood, wall decoration (1 x "Mulca", 1 x with flower motif) - 1 dried fruit or nut - 1 fish spear, New Guinea - 1 "Tetrapleura", ... Victoria, Cameroon, Dr. Schnee 28.04.1904 - 1 "Cassia Fistuea L", East Garden Victoria, Cameroon, Dr. Schnee 28.04.1904 - 1 knife in wooden case - 4 horns / teeth? (2 separated in the middle)

Contains: Box 3: - 1 water creator, wood, New Guinea - 1 bast bag black/beige (by Mr. Magi Magi... in East Africa), New Guinea - 2 shorter tusks - 1 drum, East Africa - 2 small tusks - 4 tusks of different sizes - 1 black polishing stone - 1 large shell of 2 parts - 1 piece of lava stone - 2 petrified decorated sponges

Contains: Moving box 2: - 1 turtle shell with chain, 1 part loose, 60 cm long - 1 turtle shell with chain, 1 part missing, 80 cm long - 1 wooden tube, inside open, decorated, 70 cm long - 1 fish spear, decorated, New Guinea - 1 ivory tooth, 95 cm long

Contains: Box 7: - 1 dagger with wooden part in wooden case, handle strongly decorated - 1 war horn for the "Maisa-Maisa uprising" in East Africa, dyed ivory - 1 wooden hatchet, New Guinea - 1 bast fan with decorated handle, end broken off (broken off part is there) - 1 tortoise shell as water creator, wooden handle on back - 1 tortoise shell with chain

Contains among other things: Report on the negotiations of the Colonial Economic Committee e.V., inter alia on tasks, compensation issues in the colonies, accounting of the colonial societies, economic situation in the colonies of Togo, Cameroon, East Africa, Southwest Africa, New Guinea and the South Seas