"Primitive Goldwäsche. (am Lupa.)" ("Primitive gold washing. (Lupa River.)"). A young African man is crouching on the bank of the Lupa River. He is holding a bowl. Cf. photo no. 10495. -- Photograph probably taken on a journey. -- Oskar Gemuseus (1874-1959) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as headmaster from 1907 to 1916, as mission superintendent of Nyassa [Nyasa] Province from 1925 to 1930, as bishop from 1932 to 1939. Starting in 1939 he wrote a history of the mission in Nyasa Province ("Wechselnde Gezeiten an den Gestaden des Nyassa"). His wife was Mathilde, née Richter. See his publications: "Mission und Gold", Herrnhut 1936 "Ein Gebundener Jesu Christi (über Fiwombe)", Hamburg 1950 "Sakalija Mwakasungala", Hamburg 1953.
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2 copies, colored slide no. 10483 photographic print, 5.7 x 9 cm. photographs
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