„Tinana. Gesang und Tanz der Gruppen von Bräutigam und Braut (abwechselnd), vor dem Studierzimmer des Missionars. Der eine Chorführer hat als Schwanz ein Hasenfell“ („Tinana. Singing and dancing of the bridegroom’s and bride’s groups (by turns), in front of the missionary’s study. One of the choir leader is having a hare fur as tail”). A man, standing with his back to the photographer next to a building. He is wearing a light coloured jacket and cap, dark trousers and a fur as tail. Left to him two women only half visible, wearing draperies and caps. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland). c.f. picture no. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-5-09373.
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