Murals, Tabora, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Tabora. Eingeborenenkunst an einer Hauswand" ("Tabora. Indigenous peoples' art on the wall of a house"). The wall of a house with a thatched roof. A window on the left, the entrance on the right. On the wall: pictures of wild and domestic animals (wild cats, a bird, a chicken, a cow, a snake, fish, an emu, an elefant, a crocodile). A rifle is also painted on the wall. c.f. pictures nos. IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-1-09180, IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-1-09205. 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).