cover image: Tembu woman with baby in Sigubudu, Baziya, South Africa East

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Tembu woman with baby in Sigubudu, Baziya, South Africa East

"Baziya. Außenstation Sigubudu. Christliche Tembu-Frau kommt mit ihrem Kind im Tragetuch zur Kirche" ("Baziya. Outstation Sigubudu. Christian Tembu woman is coming to the church service with her child in a baby sling"). A woman standing, wearing a light coloured shirt and a dark headscarf, carrying a baby in a baby sling on her back. 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 women church general views
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15432
Format
Photographic prints Photographs
Pages
8 x 5.5 cm
Place Discussed
Africa Baziya South Africa Unknown religious facilities: Sigubudu
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
South Africa
Reference
impa-m15432 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-6-09888
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/54ec4299dcf2b8ba3b2ab86181055378

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