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Title
Aswile Kangele and Ruben Gambi, Ululu, Tanzania, 1937
Creator
Hauffe, Werner, 1909-1982
Date Created and/or Issued
1937-11-14
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
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Aswile Kangele und Ruben Gambi 14.11.37 Ululu." ("Aswile Kangele and Ruben Gambi 11/14/1937 in Ululu."). Two Africans wearing uniform-like suits are standing in front of a thatched hut. The right one, Ruben Gambi, is wearing a kind of a decoration on his breast.
Ruben Gambi was an assistant to the missionaries. He died in 1938. -- Werner Hauffe (1909-1982) was a carpenter and later a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. From 1933 to 1939, he served in Rungwe, Utengule and Isoko. In Utengule, he was an assistant to Brother Gemuseus. In 1937, he married Irmgard Wolff.
Type
image
Format
2 copies
photographic print, 9 x 6.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m11774 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10978
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11774
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10978.jpg
Subject
Missionary work
Double portraits
Time Period
1937-11-14
Place
Africa
Tanzania
Ululu
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 5
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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