"Tabase. Tembu-Mann und Burschen" ("Tabase. Tembu man and fellows"). An old man standing on the right side of the picture, with a shawl on one shoulder, a necklace and a headdress, leaning on a stick with his left hand. Beside him a young man in a drapery, wearing necklaces and a special headdress. He is holding a stick in his right hand, put on the right shoulder. Behind him on the left another person which is hardly cognizible. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.
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