"Rungwe. Blick am großen Wohnhaus, Küche u. Hintergebäude vorbei auf das Rungwe-Gebirge." ("Rungwe. View past the large residential building, the kitchen a[nd] the rear building towards the Rungwe Mountains."). Distant view of the Rungwe Mountains. In the foreground along a road on the right: three thatched buildings, the house towards the front having a porch. Trees on the left. Distant view of two Africans standing next to the rear building. The road turns into a path with bushes on either side leading towards the mountains. Cf. no. 1605. -- One photo included from the box of duplicates. -- The picture was probably taken during Missionary Zickmantel's stay in Rungwe between 1904 and 1914. -- 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, negative no. 6845 and 1605 photographic prints, 14.0 x 9.0 cm. photographs
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