"Grün-Dung-Planze (Aeschynomene Stolzii Harms) in der Plantage Kyimbila. Rauchende Arbeiter." ("Green manuring plant (Aeschynomene Stolzii Harms) on Kyimbila plantation. Smoking workers."). Two Africans standing with cloth wrapped around their hips. They are holding up shrubs, that are facing upside down, with both hands. Next to them a group of five Africans squatting while smoking a pipe. In the background: trees and men cultivating the ground with hoes. Aeschynomene Stolzii Harms is an herbal shrub with a perennial lifespan to be found in Malawi and Tanzania only. Its stems are not climbing. It is a non-threatened plant. -- Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917) was a mission trader of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Ipanya from 1898 to 1902 and in Kyimbila from 1903 to 1914. He was responsible for the plantations in Kyimbila and Rutenganio. In 1898 he married Helene Elisabeth, née Kootz (1872-1899), in 1903 Anna, née Schulze.
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colored slide no. 3206 photographic prints, 15.3 x 10.8 cm. photographs
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