"Mit Händen wird der Erdbrei gemischt" ("The soil mush is mixed manually"). Four women in a squatting and bent down position are mixing the mush, one woman is standing and holding a shovel next to them. On the left side of the picture a bowl in the foreground and a building (apparently the school house) a bit behind. In the background other buildings, fences and trees. Richard Paul Moths, born in 1872 in Kösen (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1899 he married Helene Ledoux. From 1900 till 1948 he worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Silo, Baziya, Tabase). He died in 1950 in South Africa. c.f. pictures nos. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10182, -10184, -10186, -10187, -10188.
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