Members of the Massai hunted a lion / Photographer: Scherl

Landing manoeuvre of a German troop squadron near Tsingtau. A team of mules and horses pulls a landing gun / Photographer: Scherl

German patrol with Kaumi (today: Gaomi) in the German colony Kiautschou during the Boxer Uprising / Photographer: Scherl

A German in a rocking chair in his house. A baboon sits on his shoulder / Photographer: Scherl

The clairvoyant Erik Jan Hanussen at a performance with his calculating and thinking dog 'Togo' in the Berlin Wintergarten. / Photographer: Scherl

In the German colony of East Africa, the administration experimented with the use of zebras as mounts. For this purpose a zebra stud was established in Dar-es-Salaam / Photographer: Scherl

Coloured soldiers of a company of the German Schutztruppe, so-called Askari, marching out in the first days of the First World War / Photographer: Scherl