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Description
A standing Ethiopian ferryman is punting a canoe across the river Dabus Wenz. Adolf Müller and two Ethiopians are sitting in the canoe. Hermann Elbers is standing on the other side of the river. Adolf Müller (1905-1936) was a mission artisan of the Hermannsburg mission. He started his work as a missionary in Ethiopia in 1927. From 1928 he served in Aira, later in Bedele. He was married to Minna, née Nottorf. In may 1936 he left Bedele with his wife and baby to flee to Addis Abeba. He was killed on the way in an attack on the caravan.
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Format
copy prints, 12 x 9 cm. photographs photographic prints
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