Subject	Germany–Colonies
	Colonies–Administration
	Colonists
	Papua New Guinea
	Papua New Guinea–History
	Photographs
	Boats
Category	1. Settlement
	2. National boundaries
Keywords	Expedition
Current Holder	State Library of Queensland
Period Of Reference	1900/1905
Series Number	32396
Item Number	99183739321202061
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	Out of copyright., Unrestricted access
Country Of Origin	Papua New Guinea
Language	German
Description From Source	1 photograph album (27 photographs): black and white ; 27 x 21.5 cm. One photograph album containing twenty-seven mounted original gelatin silver and albumen photographs. Sixteen of the images have period captions in German on the mounts. The album is 27cm x 21.5cm and features an attractive custom made full brown full calf binding with leaves bound together with string. The cover features five bronze metal ornaments: four corners and a centerpiece showing a German Imperial Eagle. Photographs include a view of the Herbertshöhe waterfront with the German Imperial flag being hoisted and the ship of the Governor of German New Guinea, Albert Hahl (1868-1945), arriving at the harbour; two scenes of launching a coastal boat at the Herbertshöhe wharf during a “high visit;” several interesting group and individual portraits of New Guineans, showing native canoes with the rowers and a “hexenmeister” (witch doctor), a group portrait of “Neuguineans Kannibalen u. Hexenmeister” (“New Guinean cannibals and a witch doctor”). There are also group portraits of German officials with families, Germans gathered at a local branch of the “Lucas Bols” drinking establishment, two photos of a German monument on the beach and four pictures from a “1905 surveying expedition” showing two hilly landscapes, the “entrance to a mine” and a portrait of two German expedition members drinking alcohol after a day’s work.
Physical Format	Photographs
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/HYNZLTV7/