"Häuptling Musangavale. Th. Tietzen" ("Chief Musangavale. Th. Tietzen"). In the background forest in the foreground two seated men, the one on the left wearing a kind of suit, a large white cloth and a dark colored cap, the one on the right holding his hands in front of his face. Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
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