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and many other archaeological sites having been promptly investigated and preserved. She also concerned herself with documenting and preserving the traditional silver jewellery of
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and others considered her assistance indispensable for an anthropological exhibition in Berlin in 1880 and persuaded the
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at the University of Kiel in 1884/85 because the professor refused to grant it. But in her field she was so respected that
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