"Totentrauer in Ipyana" ("Mourning for the dead in Ipyana"). A group of lightly dressed women sitting in a forest. Two of them have a child on their laps. Some have white painted faces and breasts. [76 black-and-white photographs] Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa, was mission director of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine from 1924 to 1927 and since 1929 their bishop.
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