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Explanation: Documents from the possession of the leader of the indigenous movement against the German colonial rule in today's Namibia, at that time German South West Africa, Hendrik Witbooi (ca. 1830-1905) had fallen into the hands of the Bremen merchant August Engelbert Wulff in 1895 in the course of military conflicts in Gibeon, Namibia. In 1935 he sold it to the then German Colonial and Overseas Museum. The documents were handed over to the National Archives of Windhoek in 1995 after reproductions had been made for the State Archives of Bremen and the Übersee-Museum. Content: Correspondence

Note: Picture content identical with 2490.

Note: Picture content deviates from inscription - picture content identical with 2487.

Note: portrait size, 40 x 30,7 cm, approx. 2,5 cm thick, approx. 70 p. with 142 prints, mostly 9 x 12 cm or 13 x 18, one piece missing, in an individually designed leather binding with embossing. - From the possession of the missionary Gustav Härtter, acquired as a gift in 2005. Photos reproduced under the picture numbers 4509 to 4649.

Note. List: Carvings from Togo owned by Pastor Wessel in Reelkirchen in Lippe - content identical with 3062.