“Heidnische Frauen haben sich häuslich niedergelassen mit ’Kind und Eimer!’“ („Heathen women have settled down with ‚child and bucket!’”). Two women sitting in a meadow, one with a child on her lap. They are wearing draperies, headdresses, bangles and necklaces. One woman is having a white painted face. Next to her a bundle of cloth and in front a bucket and other draperies. On the right side of the picture another woman standing, wearing draperies and a headdress, carrying a child on her back, which is holding something in his right hand. In the background a building, a fence and a tree. 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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