"Missionar Jansa wird von einigen Witwen begrüßt. Dr. O. Fischer" ("Missionary Jansa is greeted by some widows. Dr. O. Fischer"). Missionary Jansa stands in the road together with a group of five African women, shaking hands with one of them. The women wear colored or striped clothes and headscarves three of them have walking sticks. One carries a basket on her head. Ferdinand Jansa (1868 - 1957) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served in Ipanya from December 1899 to 1901, 1906 and from 1909 to 1910, in Mbozi 1901, in Kyimbila 1902 and from 1912 to 1916 and in Mwaya from 1907 to 1909. After the First World War he continued his service in Nyasa Province from May 1926 to Mai 1934. He married Caroline, née Jung (1873 - 1944), in 1899.
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2 copies photographic prints, 11.5 x 8.6 cm. photographs
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