"Eine Taufe auf einem Aussenplatz von Rungwe. Br Zickmantel." ("Christening on an outskirt of Rungwe. Br[other] Zickmantel."). Missionary Zickmantel standing on the right under palm leaves while baptizing Africans, dressed in white, sitting on a mat. Many other Africans sitting in a semicircle around them on the ground under a large tree. In the background: mountainous landscape. One photo included from the box of duplicates. -- Martin Johannes Zickmantel (1866-1922) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Marie Agnes Hartmann in 1897, he served from 1898 to 1904 in Rutenganio and from 1904 to 1914 in Rungwe, staying also some time between 1912 and 1914 in Isoko. After the death of his first wife in 1903 in Rutenganio he married Elisabeth Louise Hartmann (1882-1963) in 1906. She served again from 1928 for many years in what is now Tanzania.
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2 copies, colored slide no. 6213 photographic prints, 14.2 x 9.3 cm. photographs
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