"Der eingeb. Prediger Wamusamba Simukoko mit Familie." ("The indigenous preacher Wamusamba Simukoko and his family.") Wamusamba in the center. He is surrounded by six of his children, boys and girls. In the background a thatched hut. Cf. photo no. 10311. -- Wamusamba was ordained on 19th of May, 1935 in Mbozi. A few days after his ordination, his wife died from pneumonia. He had seven children. -- Photograph probably taken in Mbozi. -- Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
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2 copies photographic print, 11.4 x 8.6 cm. photographs
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