Stephan Lehner (1877-1947) arrived in New Guinea as a lutheran pastor in August 1902. He worked mainly among the Bukawa people of the Huon Gulf.

The papers comprise:

1. Der Bukawac-Stamm
2. Die Naturanschauung de Bukawac
3. Spiritismus, Totemismus und Animismus des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
4. Die Blut-theorie beim Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
5. Psychologie des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
6. Sitten und Rechte des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
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7. Volksgesundheit und Wachstumsaussicht des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
8. Der Engolg der Mission beim Melanesierstamm der Bukawac
9. Geschichtliche Skizze des Bukawac-Stammes
10. Jabem-Marchen und Sagen (This work is by H. Zahn)
11. 'Maja'
12. Opa
13. Unidentified. Some of these papers, which were apparently being prepared for publication in a book about 1945, were published earlier in anthropological journals. There may be some variation between versions as published and those microfilmed. See An Ethnographic Bibliography of New Guinea, vol.1, p.150-51 (Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968).