cover image: Fingu woman with her child, Baziya, South Africa East

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Fingu woman with her child, Baziya, South Africa East

"Baziya. Fingu-Frau mit Kind" ("Baziya. Fingu woman with child"). A woman, wearing a dress, a headdress, necklaces, earrings and a lot of bangles on her arms, is having a child on her lap, wearing necklaces, too. In the background a building and trees. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.
children mothers group portraits
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15598
Format
Photographic prints Photographs
Pages
5.5 x 8.1 cm
Place Discussed
Africa Baziya South Africa Unknown
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
South Africa
Reference
impa-m15598 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10060
Rights
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany http://www.archiv.ebu.de unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/75002a832c127dd3c883686678b039cf

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