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Title
The feast is over, Baziya, South Africa East
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, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Baziya. Utabeliza. Das Fest ist vorüber. Man geht nach Hause" ("Baziya. Utabeliza. The feast is over. One is going home"). Several people standing or walking around and next to a house. The women are wearing dark dresses, the man are wearing hats and some of them coats. A bit behind a small 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.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
5.6 x 8.1 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m15474 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-09926
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15474
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-09926.jpg
Subject
Festivals
Africa
General views
Place
Africa
Baziya
South Africa
Unknown
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist

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