"Br. Zickmantel u. Kinder besuchen eine Familie im Dorf Ilolo." ("Br[other] Zickmantel a[nd his] children visit a family in the village of Ilolo."). An African man and an African woman stand in front of their thatched, round Konde hut. Next to them on the left Missionary Zickmantel with a walking cane, his two children and two dogs. Palm trees in the background. Imprinted on the image: "1627.". Cf. photo no. 6851and 7469. -- Martin Johannes Zickmantel (1866-1922) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Marie Agnes Hartmann in 1897, he served from 1898 to 1904 in Rutenganio and from 1904 to 1914 in Rungwe, staying also some time between 1912 and 1914 in Isoko. After the death of his first wife in 1903 in Rutenganio he married Elisabeth Louise Hartmann (1882-1963) in 1906. She served again from 1928 for many years in what is now Tanzania.
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negative no. 6851 and 7469, colored slide no. 1627 photographic prints, 13.7 x 9.9 cm. photographs
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