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Title
Brother Thygesen playing a game with African women, Ipole, 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
"Ifumbe, Aussenstation von Ipole. Br. Thygesen spielt das beliebte Brettspiel der Ostafrikaner (Frauenspiel)" ("Ifumbe, Ipole's outstation. Br[other] Thygesen is playing the board game popular with the East Africans (women's game)"). Brother Thygesen is sitting on a stool, the game is in front of him. His back is facing the photographer. Women are playing with him. People are standing around, watching the scene.
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
6.1 x 10.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m14750 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-2-09415
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14750
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-2-09415.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Indigenous populations
Leisure time activities
General views
Time Period
1933
Place
Africa
Ipole
Tanzania
uncategorized: Unyamwezi
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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