„Nach heidnischer Sitte verschleierte Braut“ („According to heathen custom veiled bride“). A group of people standing in a meadow. In the middle a bridal couple. The bride is wearing a white wedding dress, a veil, adornments in her hair and white gloves. Left to her the bridegroom, wearing a dark suit, a hat and white gloves, holding a stick in his right hand. On the right side of the picture a group of girls in light coloured dresses, some of them with hats. Behind the bridal couple men in suits and with hats and other young people. On the left side of the picture two women, one of them in a long plaid skirt, a light coloured blouse, a dark cardigan and a headdress, holding something in her hands. The other woman left to her is wearing a long dress, a shawl on her shoulder and a headdress. Trees and hills in the background. 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.
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