“Tembu-Frau mit Kind auf dem Rücken und Begleiterin auf der Reise (mit Eimer)“ („Tembu woman with child on the back and companion on the journey (with bucket)”). Two women, wearing draperies, headdresses, bangles and necklaces, are standing next to a building. The woman on the left side is carrying a bucket on her head. The one on the right side is carrying a child on her back. In the background another person, only half visible and trees. 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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