"Kranke Frau in Baziya wird von Br. Blohm behandelt" ("A sick woman is treated by Br[other] Blohm"). A woman is sitting on a sleigh, wrapped in a blanket and is being treated by Brother Blohm. He is standing behind her, touching her head. He is wearing a suit and a hat. His wife is standing next to him, wearing a light-coloured dress and a cardigan. On the right side, three indigenous people are sitting and kneeling, wrapped in dark blankets. On the left side, two men are standing. They are outside, in front of a house. A mountain is in the background. Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa, was mission director of the Moravian Church from 1924 to 1927 and since 1929 their bishop.--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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