"Tinana. Die Mütter beim Mais kochen zum Schulkonzert im Missionsgehöft" ("Tinana. The mothers cooking maize for the school concert in the mission homestead"). Two women in dresses and with headscarfs are standing next to a wall. On the ground beside and in front of them pots, buckets, sticks and a fireplace. Behind the wall a tree. Gerhard Dahl Elmo Knudsen, born in 1905 in Vejle (Denmark), worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Baziya, Tinana) from 1932 till 1940. In 1933 he married Martha Schmolke in Mvenyane. From 1940 till 1957 he worked as a missionary in the Southern Highlands in Tanganyika. In 1946 he married Judith Mogensen. He died in 1980 in Christansfeld. c.f. picture no. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-8-10556.
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