"Ein Kaffer-Mädchen aus Silo. Dienstmädchen bei Missionar Wetzel" (''A Kaffir girl from Silo. A maidservant at the missionary Wetzel"). A woman is wearing a voluminous headdress. She is wearing a light-coloured blouse which is having two dark, polka-dotted stripes. She is putting her left hand at her waist. c.f. picture no. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-1-02705. Wetzel, Johannes Martin Erhard, born in 1878 in Groß-Milkau (Germany), was a merchant and served in a mission in South Africa East from 1902 to 1912. He married Maria Lydia Brückner and retired from the mission service in 1912.
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