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Note: "Hausmädchen in Bali. Brustbild von vornen. In Bali hat die Basler Mission auch blühende Schulen. Während in Bamum der Häuptling den 'Schulzwang' ausübt und diejenigen Kinder schickt, die er ausbilden lassen will, kümmert sich der Balihäuptling wenig darum, wer von seinen kleinen Untertanen von der Weisheit der Weissen nippen will. Das hat sein gutes, denn so kommt auch das lernbegierige Kind des geringen Mannes in die Schule und zudem kommen die Kinder freiwillig und gern. Das fröhliche Mädchen auf unserem Bild ist Schülerin und zugleich Hausmädchen bei der Missionlehrerin in Bali." (Wuhrmann, A., 1917. Beschreibung zu den Lichtbildern aus Bamum. E-30-0,6). Note translation: "A maid-servamt in Bali. Head and shoulders seen from the front [sic]. The Basel Mission has excellent schools in Bali, too. In Bamum the chief enforces school attendance on the children he wants to have educated. The Bali chief pays little attention to the question which of his small subjects want to taste the wisdom of the whites. That has its good side, becasue you can find the child of the poor man who wants to learn something in school, and the children attend voluntarily and want to be there. The happy girl in this picture is a schoolgirl and at the same time maid-servant of the woman missionary teacher in Bali." (Anna Wuhrmann, 1917, Commentaries to the slides from Bamum, E-30-0,6).
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image
Format
b/w positive, paper print, collodion 11.0 x 8.0 cm.
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