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Title
Newly circumcised boys, Tanzania, ca.1927-1930
Creator
Blumer, Leonhard, 1878-1938
Date Created and/or Issued
1907/1930
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
Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig e.V., Paul-List-Str. 19, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig Mission
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Description
"Neubeschnittene Heiden" ("Newly circumcised heathen"). Five boys. Four of them dressed and adorned like Maasai or Arusha boys after circumcision with white painted faces, long leather robes, ear spirals, feather headdresses and bows and arrows. One dressed in a cloth and wearing a cap on his head, the face also painted white.
Cf. photo no. 409, album no. 19. -- Leonhard Blumer (1878-1938), from Kida in Estonia, served the Leipzig Mission as pastor and teacher in Arusha from 1907 to 1930 (apart from home leave in 1912-1913 and 1924-1926).
Type
image
Format
cardboard (no. 32 in box of negatives), plate (no. 32 in box of negatives)
photographic prints, 7.7 x 10.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m1289 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-LPZ-ALBUM-02-6-717
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1289
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-LPZ-ALBUM-02-6-717.jpg
Subject
Initiation rites
Boys
Group portraits
Time Period
1907/1930
Place
Africa
Tanzania
Relation
Album 2
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Leipzig Mission, Germany, ca.1912-1917 & ca.1924-1938
impa-m246

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