"Baziya. Kraal Hochzeit. Alt und Jung ergötzen sich an den Reigen-Spielen der fröhlichen Hochzeitsleute" ("Baziya. Kraal wedding. Old and young are gloating over the round dance plays of the happy wedding people"). A crowd of people next to some huts. In the foreground children. One of them naked, others in shirts or coats. Most of the people are moving, apparently dancing. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945. c.f. pictures nos. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-8-10704, -10705, -10706, -10707, -10710, -10711, -10713, -10714, -10715.
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