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• Audio* description: Some rolls recorded in 1906 were later added to the collection under a new number. The rollers 3 (Zeramo) and 28 (Hehe) were taken over as no. 109 and 110 in the Dem. Coll. There is a connection to the collection Dempwolff East Africa II. Extensive correspondence is available. Individual transcriptions can be found in Schneider 1934a and c. Some texts can be found in original language and German translation in Dempwolff 1914:127 ff.

List of Melanesian languages (used by DPW) (150-195 pieces) ,3 pages handwritten in pencil; etymologies in Melanesian languages, data from data from Codrington (e.g. 322ff), Ray (e.g. 431), Friederici, Ivens;mostly only 1 page, including table of lute development in the respective language (from theUMN or UIN), about 90 pages handwritten in pencil; Mota (after Codrington-Palmers and Ray), 1-8 Mota-Urmelanesisch, 1-26 Mota-Uraustronesich; ditto for Polynesian languages: 2 pages Rotuma, 2 Maori, 3 Mangareva; summarizing table of the Urmelanesian phonemes and their reflexes in Melanesian languages, sorted by groups: 4 languages of the Western Islands, 7 of Manus = Admiraltyinsein, 1 < Berlinhafen, Manam, 7 of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, 3 < French Islands, 2 < Siasi, 4 < SW-Neupommern, 10 of the Tuna-Group, New Ireland, Loyalties, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands etc.together about 75 pages handwritten; Sa'a after Ivens, 14 pages, Sa'a and Ulawa, lute development 1-10; Fidji after Hazlewood, 340 words (= etymologies?), 1-14 handwritten in pencil; Pala after Peekel, Berlin 1909, 120 words, 3 pages; others like Aneitum after Kern, 150 words; Wuvulu, Mota, etc., approx. 75 pages handwritten in pencil