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Title
Tembu girl, Xentu, South Africa East
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Xentu. Tembu-Mädchen" ("Xentu. Tembu girl"). Four women, wearing dresses, draperies, headscarfs and bangles on their feet, standing next to a hut. One of them is carrying a child on her back.
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.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
5.5 x 8.1 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m16007 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10078
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m16007
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10078.jpg
Subject
Girls
Indigenous populations
General views
Place
Africa
South Africa
Unknown
Xentu
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist

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