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Title: Tembu woman washing her clothes, Baziya, 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: "Sixuzolu - Baziya. Tembu-Frau bei der Wäsche ihrer Kleider. In gelbem Lehm gefärbt" ("Sixuzolu - Baziya. Tembu woman washing her clothes. Painted in yellow clay"). A woman wearing a drapery, many bracelets, necklaces and a headdress is sitting on the ground. Clothes are lying on the ground beside her.
Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints
5.5 x 8.1 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m15559 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10042
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15559
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10042.jpg
Subject: Clothing
Women
Portraits
Place: Africa
Baziya
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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