"Rast auf der Reise nach Utengule auf dem Igale. Im Hintergrund das Mbeje-Gebirge, an dessen Fuss die Station Utengule liegt. Br. Hennig." ("[Taking a] rest at Igali on a trip to Utengule. In the background the Mbeya mountains at whose base the station Utengule is situated. Br[other] Hennig."). In the foreground Missionary Hennig and a group of African porters with a mule on a path sided by shrubbery and trees. On the horizon, a range of mountains. Cf. photo no. 1640. -- Paul Otto Hennig (1857-1928) became a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in South Africa after he had married Elsbeth Gemuseus in 1891. There he served as head of the church assembly, superintendent and also as chairman of the German mission directorate from 1906 onwards. He visited East Africa in 1905/06.
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2 copies, negative no. 1640, 6852 photographic prints, 14.1 x 9.4 cm. photographs
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