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Title
Visit at the court, South Africa East
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
„Besuch bei Hof: Häuptling Swelibangile sitzend, Soyizwapi stehend, im Hintergrund das Festschaf“ („Visit at the court: Chief Swelibangile sitting, Soyizwapi standing, in the background the feast sheep“). A group of people sitting in a circle. Some of them are sitting on the ground, others on chairs. One man (Soyizwapi) is standing in the circle. A bit behind a sheep and a man who is holding the sheep’s leg. Huts and hills in the background.
Richard Paul Moths, born in 1872 in Kösen (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1899 he married Helene Ledoux. From 1900 till 1948 he worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Silo, Baziya, Tabase). He died in 1950 in South Africa.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
5.5 x 8.4 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m57840 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-3-08251
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57840
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-3-08251.jpg
Subject
Leadership
Men
General views
Place
Africa
South Africa
Unknown
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist

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