African mother and child, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1929

"Negeridyll. Dr. med. O. Fischer" ("Native idyll. Dr. O. Fischer"). In the background the wall of a house, made of wood and clay, with a mat placed against it on the right an old woman crouching at the threshold. In the foreground a woman with shaved head wearing a striped cloth, bead necklaces, a bangle and a finger-ring is seated with straddled legs on the ground. She has a flat basket, containing some grain, and an infant between her legs. The child plays with the grain in the basket.