"Tinana. Schulmädchen beim Stampfen von Mais für ihr Schulkonzert" ("Tinana. School girls mashing maize for the school concert"). Four girls in dresses standing around a pot. Two of them with sticks are mashing maize in the pot. In the background buildings. Gerhard Dahl Elmo Knudsen, born in 1905 in Vejle (Denmark), worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Baziya, Tinana) from 1932 till 1940. In 1933 he married Martha Schmolke in Mvenyane. From 1940 till 1957 he worked as a missionary in the Southern Highlands in Tanganyika. In 1946 he married Judith Mogensen. He died in 1980 in Christansfeld. c.f. picture no. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-8-10555.
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