TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aly,Götz
AU  - Chase,Jefferson S.
TI  - The magnificent boat: the colonial theft of a South Seas cultural treasure  
SN  - 9780674276574
AV  - DU740.3 .A5913 2023
U1  - 995.3 23/eng/20220719
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Luf-Boot (Boat)
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - Germany
KW  - Papua New Guinea
KW  - Boats and boating
KW  - History
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - Originally published in German as Das Prachtboot : wie Deutsche die Kunstschätze der Südsee raubten, Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer Verlag, 2021; Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index; The Scene of the Crime : German New Guinea -- With Pastor Aly's Blessings -- The Luf Boat as Museum Attraction -- The 1882 Luf Massacre -- "Bastian's Network" of Thieves -- Deception, Larceny, and Looting -- Curators, Crusaders, and Cannons -- Ethnology, Child of Colonialism -- The Luf Boat Comes to Berlin -- An Artifact of an Ancient Culture -- Islands Stripped Bare -- Where Does the Luf Boat Belong?
N2  - "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--
ER  -