Image / People celebrating the consecration of a bell, Mbeya, Tanzania, 1934

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Title: People celebrating the consecration of a bell, Mbeya, Tanzania, 1934
Creator: Hauffe, Werner, 1909-1982
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934-12
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
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description: "Glockenweihe in Mbeya Weihnachten 1934. Von weither kommen die Christen angewandert, um an der Feier teilzunehmen. Blick auf den Glockenstuhl." ("The consecration of a bell in Mbeya at Christmas 1934. The Christians are coming from afar to take part in the ceremony. View of the belfry.") A group of people wearing traditional clothes is gathering in front of a belfry with a thatched roof. On the left: a thatched hut. In the background: mountains. On the right: Africans wearing European clothes.
Cf. photo nos. 10603-10607. -- Werner Hauffe (1909-1982) was a carpenter and later a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. From 1933 to 1939, he served in Rungwe, Utengule and Isoko. In Utengule, he was an assistant to Brother Gemuseus. In 1937, he married Irmgard Wolff.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies
photographic print, 9 x 6.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m11521 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10602
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11521
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10602.jpg
Subject: Buildings
Religious practice
General views
Time Period: 1934-12
Place: Africa
Mbeya
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 5
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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