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Title
A woman and a man, Ipole, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933
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
"Kininga, Aussenstation von Ipole. Nyamwezi-Frau mit typischer Haartracht. Es ist die Frau des Evangelisten und Lehrers mit ihrem Manne, 29.9.33" ("Kininga, Ipole's outstation. Nyamwezi-woman with typical hairstyle. It is the wife of the evangelist and teacher with her husband, 29.9.33"). The woman and the man photographed from the side. They are not photographed in full-length. In the background huts.
Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
6 x 10.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m14711 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-1-09190
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14711
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-1-09190.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Women
Clergy
General views
Time Period
1933-09-29
Place
Africa
Tanzania
uncategorized: Unyamwezi
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist

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