Tembu woman with child, South Africa East

„Tembu-Frau mit Kind / wie das Kind daheim gehalten wird“ („Tembu woman with child / how the child is kept at home“). A woman, wearing draperies, headdresses, bangles, necklaces and earrings, is holding a child which is sitting on her lap and is wearing a necklace and bangles on its feet. 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.