„Schulgruppe auf einem Häuptlingsplatz wird von Br. Baudert fotografiert“ („School class on a chief's place is photographed by Br[other] Baudert“). About forty pupils standing in rows, ready for a group portrait. A man is standing on the left, apparently, their teacher. Next to the group another person sitting, wearing draperies and a cap. On the right side of the picture a European man (maybe Samuel Baudert) standing with his back to the photographer, wearing boots, trousers, a jacket and a hat, carrying a bag. A bit behind another group of people. In the background huts and hills. Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa, was mission director of the Moravian Brethren 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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