Women carrying goods, Sikonge, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Sikonge. Frauen von einer Aussenstation bringen die Gaben vom Erntefest zum Verkauf nach Sikonge" ("Sikonge. Women from an outstation are carrying offerings from the harvest festival to be sold in Sikonge"). Several women are carrying goods in baskets on their heads. On the right, part of the patio of a house. In the background on the right, a hut. On the left two trees, people are standing in their shade. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).