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Title: Election of a deacon, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1938
Creator: Hauffe, Werner, 1909-1982
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938-03
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
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description: "Diakonenwahl eines Gottesdienstes in Bupiga." ("Election of a deacon [during] a service in Bupiga.") A crowd of African men, women and children is sitting on the ground. Some of them are lifting their hand. In the background: dense vegetation.
Werner Hauffe (1909-1982) was a carpenter and later a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. From 1933 to 1939, he served in Rungwe, Utengule and Isoko. In Utengule he was an assistant to Brother Gemuseus. In 1937 he married Irmgard Wolff.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies
photographic print, 8.9 x 6.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m11767 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10970
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11767
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10970.jpg
Subject: Missionary work
Group portraits
Time Period: 1938-03
Place: Africa
Nyasa
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 5
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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