"Hier wurden Balken geschnitten für das Rasthaus, das in Kakozi gebaut werden soll." ("Beams have been cut for a rest house that is to be built in Kakozi."). In the center of the image four African joiners are sitting on piled up beams. In the background a forest. 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, 11.3 x 8.4 cm. photographs
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