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Title: View of Saisi River, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1936
Creator: Tietzen, Theodor, 1893-1973
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936-02
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
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description: "Der mächtige Saisifluss b. Machindo. (Dort gibts Krokodile)" ("The powerful Saisi River n[ear] Machindo. (There are crocodiles)"). The image shows a fluvial topography.
The Saisi River springs up in Zambia, runs to Tanzania and drains into the Rukwa basin. -- Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies
photographic print, 11.2 x 8.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m11283 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10326
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11283
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10326.jpg
Subject: Rivers
Animals
Reptiles
Topographical views
Time Period: 1936-02
Place: Africa
Nyasa
Tanzania

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