"Eine Gruppe Frauen und Mädchen. Hochsafwa. Th. Tietzen" ("A group of women and girls. Upper Safwa. Th. Tietzen"). In the background some trees. In the foreground a group of ten standing women and 16 seated girls. Almost all of them wear skirts made of beads, bangles and bead necklaces. One woman on the left wears a skirt made of cowry shells and leather, two hold a walking stick in their hands and some have their lower lips pierced and stalks of grass or a large ring inserted. Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
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2 copies photographic prints, 11.3 x 8.4 cm. photographs
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