Hamburg South Seas Expedition

The Hamburg South Seas Expedition or the German South Seas Expedition (German: Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition) was an ethnographic expedition to German New Guinea, specifically the Caroline Islands and Marshall Islands. It was funded by the Hamburg Scientific Foundation. It lasted from 1908 to 1910. The professed goal of the expedition was "to observe and record the final phases of an old, indigenous culture as long as it still had vitality and still retained as many remnants as possible of the old times, which were little changed." The Melanesian wing was led by Friedrich Fülleborn, and the Micronesian wing by Augustin Krämer.[1][2] Much of the collected artifacts are in the collections of the Museum am Rothenbaum.[3] Ethnographic films made have preserved the dances of the Melanesia and Micronesian cultures/[4]

References

1. "Research Guides: Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910 = Results of the South Pacific-Expedition 1908-1910: Introduction". guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
2. Zwernemann, Jurgen; Wilpert, Clara B. (1990). "The Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde and Its Pacific Department: A Short History". Pacific Arts (1/2): 60–62. ISSN 1018-4252. JSTOR 23409517.
3. "Collected objects during the Hamburg South Seas Expedition 1908–1910". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
4. Weinstein, Valerie (2010). "Archiving the Ephemeral: Dance in Ethnographic Films from the Hamburg South Seas Expedition 1908–1910". Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 46 (3): 223–239. doi:10.1353/smr.2010.0000. ISSN 1911-026X. S2CID 162213043.