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Title
Pupils marching, Sikonge, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933
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
"Sikonge. Die Schule marschiert unter Trommelbegleitung zum Missionshaus, um den Gast zu grüssen" ("Sikonge. The school is marching towards the mission house to the beatings of drums, in order to greet the guest"). Pupils are marching. Some boys at the front are carrying drums.
Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
6 x 10.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m14734 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-2-09229
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14734
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-2-09229.jpg
Subject
Schoolchildren
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period
1933
Place
Africa
Sikonge
Tanzania
uncategorized: Unyamwezi
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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