„Heidnischer Medizinmann mit 2 Frauen als Gehilfen. Er trägt eine Affenfellmütze als Zeichen seiner Würde“ („Heathen medicine man with two women as assistants. He is wearing a cap made of monkey fur as a sign of his dignity“). Group portrait of three persons standing in a meadow. On the left side a man, wearing a patterned blanket, necklaces and a special headdress, apparently made of fur. Next to him two women, wearing long dresses and draperies, headdresses and special bags around their waists. In the background buildings and trees. 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.
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