"Eine Gruppe Männer und Jünglinge. Hochsafwa. Th. Tietzen" ("A group of men and youths. Upper Safwa. Th. Tietzen"). In the background some trees. In the foreground a group of ten standing men and ten seated boys. Almost all of them wear a simple unicolored cloth tied around the hips or neck many wear bead necklaces, some wear bangles or beaded head-bands, five have painted their bodies with white paint and two have feathers in their hair. Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
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2 copies photographic prints, 11.2 x 8.4 cm. photographs
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