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Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of imperialism as the story of a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. Aly restores attention to colonial conquests and lays bare the vexed nature of ethnological appropriation.

Boats and boating --- Cultural property --- History. --- Destruction and pillage --- Luf-Boot (Boat) --- Papua New Guinea --- Antiquities. --- augustin kramer. --- canoes. --- curator. --- eduard hernsheim. --- ethnography. --- felix von luschan. --- hermit. --- human remains. --- otto dempwolff. --- outrigger. --- plunder. --- property. --- provenance. --- prussian cultural heritage foundation. --- repatriation. --- restitution. --- robbed. --- stolen.