"Die Rastleute des Tembu-Häuptlings Mputi" ("Resting people of the Tembu chief Mputi"). This photograph shows fourteen people, wrapped in blankets and draperies, wearing headdresses and holding sticks in their hands. Five people are sitting at the very front, behind them five people are standing in one line and four men are standing in one line in the background. On the right side a woman, dressed in a light-coloured dress, walking. In the background are houses and hills. Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa, was mission director of the Moravian Church from 1924 to 1927 and since 1929 their bishop.
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