"Beim Schulfest in Rungwe. Eine Szene des Jakobspieles. Die Söhne Jakobs auf dem Felde bei den Herden beschliessen beim Feuer sitzend den Verkauf ihres Bruders Josef." ("School festival in Rungwe. A scene of the play 'Jacob'. Jacob's sons, seated in the fields around a fire with their herds, decide to sell their brother Joseph."). A group of young Africans is sitting around a fire one of them is standing. In the background: a forest. Werner Hauffe (1909-1982) was a carpenter and later a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. From 1933 to 1939, he served in Rungwe, Utengule and Isoko. In Utengule, he was an assistant to Brother Gemuseus. In 1937 he married Irmgard Wolff.
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2 copies photographic print, 8.9 x 6.4 cm. photographs
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