"Trocknen der Handelsware in Mwaja. Ladenhaus u. Stallungen im Bau. Altes Wohnhaus." ("Drying commodities in Mwaya. Shop building a[nd] stables in the course of construction. Old residential building."). View of a yard in which fabric has been hung up on lines and has been spread out on the ground. Four Africans are sitting on a matt to the left, two are standing in front of the lines, two Africans, dressed in white, and Missionary Stolz (?) are standing next to a table on the right. On the right side, a thatched house has been depicted partly. In the background: abe long building with a scaffold and two workers on top of it. Behind that building, a tall tree towers into the sky. Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917) was a mission trader of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Ipanya from 1898 to 1902 and in Kyimbila from 1903 to 1914. He was responsible for the plantations in Kyimbila and Rutenganio. In 1898 he married Helene Elisabeth, née Kootz (1872-1899), in 1903 Anna, née Schulze.
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