Child with burnt back, South Africa East

„Kind mit verbranntem Rücken. Die Decke hatte Feuer gefangen. Ehe die Mutter mit dem Kind hierher kam, hat sie erst 14 Tage lang mit Kuhmist eingeschmiert“ („Child with burnt back. The blanket had caught fire. Before the mother came here with the child, she anointed it with cow dung fourteen days along“). A naked child standing with its back to the photographer. Parts of its back and neck are brighter than the rest of its skin. In front of it a woman, wearing draperies, a headdress, a bangle and a necklace, kneeling. 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.