Man with bow and arrow and others, Ipole, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Ifumbe, Aussenstation von Ipole. Ein Mann mit Bogen und Pfeilen und drei Zuschauern" ("Ifumbe, Ipole's outstation. A man with bow and arrow and three onlookers"). The man with bow and arrow on the left. He is wearing a cloth and a hat. On the right, three more people. A man with a hat, a smart shirt and a pair of trousers with braces but he is not wearing shoes. Next to him a boy and a young man. On the left, behind the man with the bow and arrow, part of a round hut with a thatched roof is visible. In the background more huts, partly covered by the group. 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).