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Title
Pulling teeth, Baziya, South Africa East
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, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
„Baziya. Zahnziehen (heidnische Patientin Kaleb, der Kutscher als Assistent)“ („Baziya. Pulling teeth (heathen female patient Kaleb, the coachman as assistant“). Five persons: Two young women, standing in the foreground with their back to the photographer, wearing dresses. In the right half a woman, sitting ducked on a chair, holding an object in her left hand, looking in the young women’s direction. Next to her a man or a boy standing, wearing trousers, a pullover and a hat. The fifth person next to the man is hardly visible. A building, trees and fences in the background.
Richard Paul Moths, born in 1872 in Kösen (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1899 he married Helene Ledoux. From 1900 till 1948 he worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Silo, Baziya, Tabase). He died in 1950 in South Africa.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
5.6 x 7.7 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m57940 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-4-08799
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57940
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-4-08799.jpg
Subject
Physicians
Diseases
General views
Place
Africa
Baziya
South Africa
Unknown
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist

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