"Rungwe. Die Schüler der höheren Schule." ("Rungwe. Secondary school students."). Students standing in three lines next to each other on a path departing from a thatched school building on the left and a thatched church building on the right. They are holding sticks in their hands and are overseen by Missionary Gemuseus who is standing to their right holding a walking stick. Trees on the left and in the background on the right. One photo included from the box of duplicates. -- Oskar Gemuseus (1874 - 1959) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as headmaster from 1907 to 1916, as mission superintendent of Nyassa [Nyasa] Province from 1925 to 1930, as bishop from 1932 to 1939. Starting in 1939 he wrote a history of the mission in Nyasa Province ("Wechselnde Gezeiten an den Gestaden des Nyassa"). His wife was Mathilde, née Richter. See his publications: "Mission und Gold", Herrnhut 1936 "Ein Gebundener Jesu Christi (über Fiwombe)", Hamburg 1950 "Sakalija Mwakasungala", Hamburg 1953.
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one photo is missing photographic prints, 17.1 x 12.1 cm. photographs
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