"Hirtenknaben in Sandill. Sie sind auch Schüler der Tagesschule dort" ("Herder boys in Sandill. They are also pupils of the all-day school there"). Five naked boys in the foreground, one in the background, standing in a meadow. Some of them are wearing bangles and necklaces. They are holding sticks in their hands. In the background trees and hills. 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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