"Baziya. Im Missionshof. Kranke warten auf Behandlung. Links Heide, rechts daneben Heidin mit Flasche für Medizin. Hinten zwei Heidinnen, eine mit Flasche, eine mit Kind, dem sie gegen die Sonne ein Tuch über den Kopf gelegt hat" ("Baziya. In the mission courtyard. Sick persons are waiting for treatment. On the left side a heathen, right beside a female heathen with a bottle for medicine. In the back two female heathens, one with a bottle, one with a child to whom she has put a shawl on the head against the sun"). Several people wearing draperies and headdresses are sitting or standing in a meadow. Behind them others are sitting or standing next to a building. In the background other houses, a fence and trees. c.f. picture no. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-6-09505. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).
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