Includes among others: Abels, Hermann, Kunstsalon, Cologne Address by Julius Lips to the opening of the exhibition of the painter Emil Flecken; purchase of a watercolour by the painter Vollmberg; 1929-1931; farewell party for museum director Rademacher on 28.1.1931; Albrecht, H. collecting activity on his Africa expedition; 1931-1932; 'Anthropos', international magazine, St. Petersburg, Germany; 'Anthropos', international magazine, St. Petersburg, Germany; 'Anthropos', Germany Gabriel-Mödling b. Vienna Purchase of the General Index for the years 1906 to 1931; Workers' Cult, Berlin Loan or purchase of Lenin's death mask for the exhibition "Masks of People", 1931; Exhibition, Fair and Tourism Office of the City of Cologne Loan of ethnographics for the International Leather Show Berlin, 1930; Brown

Rund 20.000 Alltags- und Ritualgegenstände sowie Kunst außereuropäischer Kulturen bilden einen reichen Fundus für Sonderausstellungen und wissenschaftliche Forschung. Ziel ist dabei, Verständnis und Respekt für andere Weltregionen zu fördern und Interesse an der Vielfalt menschlicher Lebenswelten zu wecken. Regionale Schwerpunkte der Sammlung sind Ostasien und Amerika sowie die ehemaligen deutschen Kolonialgebiete in Neuguinea, Ost- und Westafrika. Zeitgenössische Kunstwerke indigener Völker, die im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition und Moderne entstehen, nehmen einen besonderen Platz ein. Die Sammlung Afrika besteht aus rund 3.500 Objekten des afrikanischen Kontinentes. Kostbarkeiten sind die Alltagsgegenstände der Schilluk, Dinka, und Bari. Sie wurden teils bereits vor 1876 von den Freiburger Brüdern Rosset im damals noch unerforschten Südsudan zusammengetragen. Andere Objekte stammen aus den früheren deutschen Kolonien (1885-1918) in Ost- und Südwestafrika. Angehörige der damaligen kaiserlichen "Schutztruppen", wie beispielsweise Karl Sauer, Wilhelm Winterer, Theodor Leutwein, Dr. Lübbert und Eugen Fischer gaben Alltags- und Ritualobjekte der Makonde, Ziba, Herero und San an das Museum. Von Kapitän Johannis Heldt erwarb das Museum 1899 schöne bis wunderliche Objekte aus Zentral- und Westafrika.

Contains: List of mussel species, list of materials for colouring the topa, animals from Surinam (Latin and Indian names); collection lists compiled under the heading "Remarks on individual pieces of the museum": Missionary Bergmann (German New Guinea), Baron von Bülow (Herero, Owambo), von Carnap-Quernheimb (Cameroon, Togo, Congo), Capitain Dallmann (Various countries), Eckstein (Boers, Zulu), Dr. Ehser (Bali collection), Dr. O. Finsch, Haas brothers (British New Guinea), Kollmann (Uganda, Ushashi, East Africa), Kromecken (?) (Tokyo, Middle Java, Sikkim), Schmidt (Lagos), I. Schneider (Palestine, Egypt, Omdurman), Von Sieglin, Baron von Soden (Africa), Prof. Soest/Eugen Rautenstrauch (South Sea Collection), Sprochte (?), Ludwig Wießner (Untervolta, Sudan)

Scope: 256 sheets. Reference: HI XIII 3d 3XIII 19a 1147-52,286.Contains: Transfer of the Joest´schen collection to the Bayenturm, reports by the director of the Natural History Museum, Dr. Carl Hilburg (1898-1899); donation of the Joest collection by Eugen Rautenstrauch and Adele geborene Joest, donation conditions, enrichment of the collection by gifts, including purchases of Eugen Rautenstrauch (1899-1901, including Benin bronzes, other objects from Benin, from Siam), from other members of the Rautenstrauch family (1908), offer by the travelling zoologist H. Förster for sale of his collection (1899, with catalogue) of pearl mussels (1900); collection Adolf Diehl, Wiesbaden, mediated by the editor of the Kölnische Zeitung, Prosper Müllendorf (1900, with catalogue); Meetings of the Commission for the Museum of Natural History (1899), takeover of a Peruvian collection from the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (1899), draft concerning the installation of the Joest Collection (1899), donation of quivers and arrows from Togo from the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin (1900), opening of the collection, Newspaper article (1900), offer by Oscar Mengelbier to purchase his Chilean-Araucanian Indian collection (1900), offer by Hermann Rolle, Berlin (1901) of a natural history collection, donation of two works from the Zulu coffee shops (1901), a Java collection by Dr. Schmitz, Heidelberg (1901), Cameroon collection by company v. Tippelskirch

Of the original 250 objects that Funk donated, the collection, with around 120 ethnographica and around 60 photographs of the islands of Melanesia and Polynesia, represents the majority of the ethnographic holdings of the Regional Museum, with a focus on the Samoa Islands and the Bismarck Archipelago. Apart from a few made models, these are original objects that were used in people's everyday lives. They mark a time when contact with Europeans has intensified. Especially the Malanggan masks from the province New Ireland in Papua New Guinea as well as the Tapa (fabrics from bark bast) are to be emphasized due to their state of preservation and their quality. This collection is to be seen for conservation reasons only in the context of special exhibitions. literature: Maubach, Peter: Dr. Bernhard Funk (1844-1911) : a Neubrandenburger in the South Seas. Neubrandenburg Mosaic 1995, 87-93. "URL": http://www.bibliothek-nb.de/Permalink.aspx?id