"Die Tembe Ngenva. Br. Henning und Missionare" ("The Tembe Ngenva. Br[other] Henning and missionaries"). A cowshed made of poles with a flat, thatched roof in the centre. Cows are standing inside the shed. In the foreground and on the right the roofs of buildings, these roofs are also flat and thatched and possibly coated with mud. In the background further elongated buildings and on the far right four people dressed in white, probably the missionaries. In the far background trees. No Tembe Ngenva can be seen in the picture. Paul Otto Henning, teacher (1857 in Strassburg, Alsace - 1928, Porto Alegre, Brazil) became a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in South Africa after he had married Elsbeth Gemuseus in 1891. There he served as head of the church assembly, superintendent and also as chairman of the German mission directorate from 1906 onwards. He visited East Africa in 1905/06. He retired in 1924.
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