Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Wuvulu und Aua (Maty- und Dour-Inseln) auf Grund der Sammlung F. E. Hellwig aus den Jahren 1902 und 1904
Other Name
Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Volkerkunde--Title page. (Alternate title)
Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Volkerkunde (Series)
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Kommissionsverlag von Lucas Grafe & Sillem
Place
Date
1908
Physical Description
156, [2] pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded), tables ; 29 cm.
Language
German
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Related Object Notes
Reserve GN671.M6 HAG Die Ornamentik von Wuvulu und Aua auf Grund der Sammlung des Museums
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Wuvulu language--Texts.; Wuvulu Island (Papua New Guinea); Aua Island (Papua New Guinea)]
Aus dem 4. Beiheft zum Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen wissenschaftlichen Anstalten XXV, 1907. "Literatur": pages 151-152.
Subject Notes
Paul Hambruch (22 November 1882, Hamburg - 25 June 1933, Hamburg) was a German ethnologist and folklorist.
He studied natural sciences, chemistry and mathematics at the University of G÷ttingen and geography, anthropology and ethnology in Berlin, where his instructors were Ferdinand von Richthofen and Felix von Luschan. In 1904 he began work as an assistant at the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. By way of a request from the Jaluit Gesellschaft, he traveled to Nauru in an effort to fight a disease affecting coconuts.
In 1908-10 he participated in the Sⁿdsee-Expedition to Micronesia under the directorship of Georg Thilenius, head of the Ethnological Museum in Hamburg. In the South Seas, he conducted ethnographic research on Nauru, Ponape and other islands. His collection of fairy tales and myths from the Pacific islands were to become widely known.
After returning to Germany, he was named director of the Oceania department at the Ethnological Museum in Hamburg. In 1922 he was appointed professor of anthropology at the University of Hamburg, where he also gave classes on the traditional customs and folklore of rural Europe. In 1929 he became a founding member of the Gesellschaft fⁿr V÷lkerkunde, which later became the Deutsche Gesellschaft fⁿr V÷lkerkunde.
Collection Type
Reserve Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
16 Dec 2023
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