Image / First African hut at the mission compound, Rungwe, Tanzania, 1892

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Title: First African hut at the mission compound, Rungwe, Tanzania, 1892
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1892
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: "Die erste Eingebornen-Hütte auf d. Station Rungwe 1892. Mwalutende, Kambasika, Polokoto." ("The first local roundhut at the Rungwe Mission compound 1892. Mwalutende, Kambasika, Polokoto."). Three Africans stand in front of the hut: Mwalutende, Kambasika and Polokoto (from left to right). Imprinted on the image: "Eingeborenen-Hütte. Rungwe. Ost-Afrika. No. 472" ("Native hut. Rungwe. East Africa. no. 472").
Included from the box of duplicates. -- Photo is yellowed. -- Mwalutende (also Mwalutendo) worked for Missionary Theodor Meyer at the Rungwe Mission and was baptized there in 1897.
Type: image
Format: colored slide no. 472
photographic print, 11.0 x 8.6 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m5398 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-00472
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5398
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-00472.jpg
Subject: Buildings
Men
Group portraits
Time Period: 1892
Place: Africa
Rungwe
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 1
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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