"Sunday, December 24, 1905. [underlined, p. 60] [p. 61] [...] In the evening came the [...] [?] which have ethnographic value. Almost all were procured for me by Max. Snuff box made of horn & wood, bought here from a Swahili (1 Rupia). Similar illustration in Baumann. Usambara. 1891. p. 231. / Kiswahili: tabakero is made by Wanjamwezi [drawing with material details] Wood Horn Wood / Combs, 3 pieces similar to those I illustrated in diary TB. 44, p. 68. One comb like the attached illustration & one was recently carved for me by a Njamwezi named [?], it had the following shape [drawing] / Kiswahili: schamo / and was unfinished made from [p. 62] white soft wood, while the others come from one and the same Fundi (craftsman), who specializes in them. These are yellow and smooth. [drawing] / Small and larger carved round spoons with burnt-in designs, shallowly hollowed, the figures vary. [drawings of seven spoons a-g, partly detailed drawings with labels] Kiswahili: kijiko / mwiko / wu bu [?] / a deep spoon: [drawing h] [drawing of a flute with material details] Wooden flute Tin Gourd Pumpkin Wood Kiswahili: nzumari [corrected to zumari] [p. 63] Device for hollowing coconuts. The halved nut is rasped out with a saw-toothed iron [correction], while the man who operates it sits on the apparatus itself. The wooden parts are carved from one piece & foldable. [Two drawings, one showing a detail] Kiswahili: mbuzi (actually = goat) / A bush knife called "munde" in Kiswahili. Most come from Germany, but these have a much slimmer shape. [drawing] Max received two Chinese pictures embroidered on darkest silk to hang on the wall [p. 64]. I had actually [?] bought them, like the other fabric goods, from an Indian in Tanga. Then a transparent thin fiber fabric, perhaps pineapple fiber, with very colorful butterflies embroidered from thick silk threads. A table runner made of silk, Indian work. –" [translation]

source: Museum der Kulturen Basel, VI 56197, 46 (61)
author: Karl Braun

"42. Wooden comb carved from soft wood by a Nyamswezi, shanuo / Amani 24 Dec. 1905 / TB [diary] 46.62 / [drawing] / [with red lettering added] 1 Rp." [translation]

source: Museen Stade, r 2018 / 18566
author: Karl Braun

In 1934, the former director of the Biological Imperial Institute for Agriculture and Forestry (Biologische Reichsanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft) Karl Braun (1870–1935) gave the so-called “Kolonialsammlung Braun” (Colonial Collection Braun) to the Hanseatic City of Stade, or rather its representative, the then mayor Hans Arthur Meyer (1884–1961). See the file „Transfer of a colonial collection from the senior government councillor Professor Dr. Karl Braun in Stade to the City of Stade” („Überlassung einer Kolonialsammlung vom Oberregierungsrat Professor Dr. Karl Braun in Stade an die Stadt Stade") at the Lower Saxony State Archives Stade (Niedersächsischen Landesarchiv Standort Stade).

source: Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Standort Stade, Dep. 10 Nr. 03025

In 1997, the then city archivist Jürgen Bohmbach concludes a permanent loan agreement with the Museum Society Stade (Museumsverein Stade e.V.), for which the then director Gerd Mettjes signs. Thereafter, the collection from Karl Braun is transferred to the care of the Museum Society Stade (Museumsverein Stade e.V.).

source: Museen Stade, Vereinbarung Leihgabe "Brauns'sche Kolonialsammlung"