"Eine Evangelisations-Versammlung im Dorfe Ilolo. Br. Holland [=Hollan]. Br. Zickmantel." ("Evangelization assembly in the village of Ilolo. Br[other] Hollan[ ]. Br[other] Zickmantel."). Missionaries Hollan and Zickmantel sitting behind a large group of Africans on the ground in front of an indigenous thatched hut. A little white boy and a little white girl standing next to the missionaries. Three Africans in the back are dressed in white. In the background palm trees and other trees. Imprinted on the image: "1621.". 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. -- Paul Oswald Hollan (1877-unknown) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as a joiner from 1903 to 1916 in Rungwe until his internment in 1916. He returned to Germany in 1919. In 1909 he had married Augusta Gertrud(e), née Zöllner (1883-unknown).
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