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Title
Women's Prayer union, Clarkson, South Africa, 1930
Creator
Baudert, Samuel(?), 1879-1956
Baudert, Eugen Theodor (?), 1876-1953
Date Created and/or Issued
1930
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
"Wittekleibosch. Der Gebetsbund der Frauen." ("Wittekleibosch. The women's prayer union."). The picture shows a group of 23 women and eight small children of African origin. The women in the first row sit, the others stand behind them. All women wear dark colored scarfs around their heads except one woman who wears a white scarf. Behind the group are trees. On the right a young woman and a boy watching the group. Written on the card board: "Br. Baudert 1930." ("Br[other] Baudert 1930.").
Wittekleibosch is an outstation of Clakson. -- The Xhosa term for the women's prayer union is "umanyano". -- The picture was probably taken by Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa. He was the mission director of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine from 1924 to 1927 and since 1929 their bishop. It might also be possible that the picture was taken by Eugen Theodor Baudert (1876-1953) who worked as a lecturer at the theological seminar in Mvenyane.
Type
image
Format
colored slide no. 7107
photographic prints, 11 x 6.6 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12397 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAW-2-07107
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12397
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAW-2-07107.jpg
Subject
Religious communities
Women
Associations
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
1930
Place
Africa
Clarkson
South Africa
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
Süd-Afrika-West 2
impa-m76

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