“Tabase. Wettsingen der Schulkinder” (“Tabase. Singing contest of schoolchildren”). This photograph shows approximately twenty schoolchildren (boys and girls), wearing light-coloured blouses or shirts and dark trousers or skirts. They are standing in four lines in front of a European style building, facing the teacher who conducts them. Spectators are sitting in a broader semicircle around them. A European child (left side) is facing the camera. Richard Paul Moths, born in 1872 in Kösen (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1899 he married Helene Ledoux. From 1900 till 1948 he worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Silo, Baziya, Tabase). He died in 1950 in South Africa.
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