„Bei Zincuka. Lahmer Greis (Christ) und 3 Christinnen. Er bekam gerade ein Kranken-Abendmahl. Schöne Tür-Umrahmung“ („Near Zincuka. Lame old man (Christian) and 3 female Christians. He has just got a medical supper. Beautiful door framing“). Three women and one man sitting at the entrance of a hut. The women are wearing long dresses and headdresses, the one leftmost a plaid drapery on her shoulders, the other two differently patterned draperies on her shoulders. The man, sitting in the entrance, is wrapped in a long patterned drapery. Ornaments are made in the wall of the door framing. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).
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