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Title
A family in Xentu with the assistant Elias Mzuku, 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
"Christliche Kaffer-Familie in Xentu bei Baziya mit dem Helfer Elias Mzuku, sitzend" ("A Christian Kaffir family in Xentu near Baziya with the assistant Elias Mzuku, sitting"). Seventeen people (three women, three men, eleven children) are standing and sitting in front of a round hut. Seven people (two women, three men, two children) are sitting. The left sitting woman is wearing a patterned skirt and a blouse, holding a child who is wearing a light-coloured dress. The right sitting woman is wearing a dark, wealthily dress. The third woman is standing rightmost, holding a light-coloured blanket in her left hand. The men are wearing suits. Most of the children are dressed in light-coloured dresses. Only one child is wearing a dark clothing.
Elias Mzuku, coming from Tembuland, was an Evangelist in Xentu (South Africa).
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
10.9 x 15 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m15380 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-1-01157
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15380
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-1-01157.jpg
Subject
Family
Christians
Children
Men
Women
Group portraits
Place
Africa
Baziya
South Africa
Unknown
religious facilities: Xentu
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
colored slide no. 1157
impa-m76

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