Xhosa woman with a sick child, Baziya, South Africa East

"Baziya. Xosa-Frau mit krankem Kind. Es hat eitrige Wunden am Körper und eitrige Halsdrüsen" ("Baziya. Xosa woman with sick child. It has festering wounds on his body and festering neck glands"). A woman, wearing a drapery, a headdress, a necklace and earrings, is holding a naked child in her arms. On the right side of the picture another person who is only halfly visible. In the background plants and buildings. 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.