"Br. Gemuseus verteilt die Träger" ("Br[other] Gemuseus allocates the porters"). About thirty people standing in two rows looking at brother Gemuseus. The latter one is wearing dark clothes and a lightly coloured hat. He is standing in front of the people and pointing his finger in the direction of some of the people. On the right side are buildings and in the background and around are trees. [76 black-and-white photographs] Oskar Gemuseus (1874-1959) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as headmaster from 1907 to 1916, as mission superintendent of Nyassa [Nyasa] Province from 1925 to 1930, as bishop from 1932 to 1939. Starting in 1939 he wrote a history of the mission in Nyasa Province ("Wechselnde Gezeiten an den Gestaden des Nyassa"). His wife was Mathilde, née Richter. See his publications: "Mission und Gold", Herrnhut 1936 "Ein Gebundener Jesu Christi (über Fiwombe)", Hamburg 1950 "Sakalija Mwakasungala", Hamburg 1953. -- Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa, was mission director of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine from 1924 to 1927 and since 1929 their bishop.
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