"Baziya. Tembu-Frauen" ("Baziya. Tembu women"). Four persons: Two women and a child in the foreground. One man behind them. The woman on the right side is wearing a light coloured dress, bangles, necklaces and a headdress. She is carrying a baby on her back and holding an umbrella in her hands. Left to her another woman, wearing a dark dress, bangles and a headdress. She is carrying a bucket on her head. The man behind is hardly visible. On the right side and in the background buildings 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.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15540
- Format
- Photographic prints Photographs
- Pages
- 8.1 x 5.5 cm
- Place Discussed
- Africa Baziya South Africa Unknown
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- South Africa
- Reference
- impa-m15540 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10026
- 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/d9147379879fd0724659ee6719f29018