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Title
Tembu medicine man, 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
„Baziya. Tembu-Medizinmann“ („Baziya. Tembu medicine man“). A man standing, wearing draperies and a special headdress, holding a bag and another object in his hands.
Johnson W. Silinga, born in Baziya (South Africa East) in 1893, was an indigenous brother of the Moravian Church. He was a mission assistant from 1927 onwards.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
5.5 x 7.8 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m57842 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-3-08256
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57842
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-3-08256.jpg
Subject
Physicians
Indigenous populations
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; colored slide no. 8256

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