"Tembu-Frau. Typische Haltung bei Verlegenheit" ("Tembu woman. Typical posture in case of bashfulness"). A woman standing wearing a drapery, bangles, necklaces and a headdress, carrying a child on her back and something on her head (maybe a bucket with something in it). She is holding her right hand near her mouth. In the background a building. 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. [The picture is yellowed.]
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15553
- Format
- Photographic prints Photographs
- Pages
- 8.1 x 5.5 cm
- Place Discussed
- Africa South Africa Unknown
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- South Africa
- Reference
- impa-m15553 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10035
- 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/71e8f1a1490ecd56eb4422e74c83190e
