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Behind the Picture: German Filmmakers as Agents of Natural History Collections. The Case Study of Adolf Freiherr von Dungern in the Amazon Cover

Behind the Picture: German Filmmakers as Agents of Natural History Collections. The Case Study of Adolf Freiherr von Dungern in the Amazon

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|Dec 2025

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Figure 1

Poster of the film Urwelt im Urwald. Der Film, no. 42, 18 October 1925 (Public Domain).

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Figure 2

Three agents from the dataset: Adolf von Dungern (center), with Otto Bertram (left) and Rudolf Rangnow (right), holding a three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus Schinz, 1825) during the Dungern Amazon Expedition (Ufa), 1924–1925.

Rangnow, R. (1938). Tropenpracht und Urwaldnacht: Auf Tierfang am Amazonas (p. 96). Leipzig: Gustav Wenzel & Sohn (Photo: Public Domain).

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Figure 3

Donation list of specimens presented by Adolf von Dungern from the Brazilian Amazon to the Zoologisches Museum Berlin, 2 October 1925. Archiv Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, S-02-01-03-01, 1933, Bl. 16, Korrespondenz mit Adolf Freiherr von Dungern.

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Figure 4

Skull of a pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), donated by Adolf von Dungern to the Zoologisches Museum Berlin in 1930. From Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Mammal Collection, ZMB_Mam_41500. Photo: Rodrigo Campos Castello Branco.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.443 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 27, 2025
Accepted on: Dec 1, 2025
Published on: Dec 17, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Rodrigo Campos Castello Branco, Sabine von Mering, published by Ubiquity Press
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