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Title
Workers' huts on a diamond field, South Africa
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
Archiv des Evangelisch-lutherischen Missionswerkes (ELM), Georg-Haccius-Str. 9, 29320, Hermannsburg, Germany
Evangelisches-lutherisches Missionswerk in Niedersachsen (ELM)
Hermannsburg Mission
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archiv@elm-mission.net
Description
"Wohnstätten der Schwarzen auf dem Diamantenfeld" ("Dwellings of the blacks on the diamond field"). Photograph of shabby huts made of metal sheets.
"In den großen Diamantengebieten sind ganze Eingeborenen’städte’ entstanden. Die Hütten sind meist auf denkbar primitive Weise hergestellt (aus Blechstücken und Säcken). Die Schwarzen sind hier wie auf dem Goldfeld entwurzelt u. einem ungebundenen, verführerischen Leben ausgesetzt. Die sittlichen Zustände sind etwa auf der Stufe des Goldfeldes angelangt. Missionsarbeit ist ungeheuer schwierig, weil die Schwarzen auf dem Diamantenfeld aus allen möglichen Stämmen u. Sprachen u. Kirchen u. Sekten zusammengewürfelt wohnen. Die Jugend ist kaum zu bekommen. Sie leben „modern“, wie die Weißen es ihnen vormachen." ("In the large diamond areas whole 'towns' of the Natives have emerged. The huts are mostly built in an extremely primitive way (made of metal sheets and sacks). The blacks are disrooted here on the goldfield and exposed to a loose, seductive life. The moral conditions have reached approximately the level of the gold field. Missionary work is immensely difficult, because the blacks live on the gold field cobbled together of all sorts of tribes and languages and churches and sects. The youth is hardly to get. They live in a 'modern' way, like the whites are showing it to them in their way of living.")
Type
image
Format
photographs
photographic prints, 13,2 x 9 cm.
Identifier
impa-m67782 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HMIT-V-018.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m67782
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HMIT-V-018.jpg
Subject
General views
Housing
Living conditions
Workers
Place
Africa
South Africa
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Hermannsburg Mission, 1888-1958
impa-m59833

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