Wilhelm Knappe’s photo album as an early testimony of German colonization of the Marshall Islands1

Q2 Arts and Humanities Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1386/nzps_00037_1
Hermann Mückler
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Wilhelm Knappe (1855–1910), the first German administrator (imperial commissioner) assigned to the newly acquired Marshall Islands in 1886, created a photo album with pictures, presumably taken by New Zealand photographer Thomas Andrew in the same year. There are at least three existing copies of these albums and a bundle of loose photographs identical to those in the album in question. At the time of Knappe’s arrival in the Marshall Islands, Germany was still in the process of consolidating its newest colonial acquisition. The photographs show both Marshall Islanders untouched by Christian missions and colonial influence, and already ‘civilized’ Indigenous people from various atoll islands of the Ralik- and Ratak-group. The importance of this album results from the fact that it is one of the earliest pictorial records of the Marshall Islands and it probably represents the first documentation of German activities on the eastern Micronesian archipelago. This article highlights the history of the album and the photographs as well as their importance for a reconstruction of Marshall Islands’ history in the late nineteenth century.
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威廉·克纳佩的相册是德国殖民马绍尔群岛的早期见证1
1886年,第一位被派往新获得的马绍尔群岛的德国行政长官(帝国专员)威廉·克纳佩(1855–1910)创作了一本相册,里面有照片,可能是新西兰摄影师托马斯·安德鲁在同年拍摄的。这些相册至少有三本,还有一捆与相关相册中的照片完全相同的散照片。克纳佩抵达马绍尔群岛时,德国仍在巩固其最新的殖民地。这些照片显示,马歇尔岛上的居民没有受到基督教使命和殖民影响,还有来自Ralik和Ratak集团各个环礁岛的已经“文明”的土著人。这本相册的重要性在于,它是马绍尔群岛最早的图片记录之一,可能是德国在密克罗尼西亚群岛东部活动的第一份文献。这篇文章强调了相册和照片的历史,以及它们对重建19世纪末马绍尔群岛历史的重要性。
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Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies
Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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期刊介绍: The Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies covers disciplines including the humanities and social sciences, and subjects such as cultural studies, history, literature, film, anthropology, politics and sociology. Each issue of this publication aims to establish a balance between papers on New Zealand and papers on the South Pacific, with a reports and book reviews section included. The journal is sponsored by the New Zealand Studies Association and hosted by the University of Vienna. It has replaced the key publication NZSA Bulletin of New Zealand Studies.
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