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Title
Dance with shield and spears, South Africa East
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
„Sonntag im Compound. Eing. Tanz mit Schildern und Sperren“ („Sunday in the compound. Indigenous dance with shield and spears“). A group of men in indigenous costumes, holding shields and spears, are dancing. Behind them other people watching them. In the background trees and a sign with the inscription “Rose deep baca.”
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.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
4.1 x 5.4 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m56973 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-8-12167
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m56973
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-8-12167.jpg
Subject
Dance
Indigenous populations
General views
Place
Africa
South Africa
Unknown
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist

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