Missionary Stolz buys crocodile eggs, Ipanya, Tanzania, ca. 1898-1917

"Br. Stolz in Ipyana kauft Krokodils-Eier zur Vernichtung auf." ("Br[other] Stolz buys up crocodile eggs to destroy them."). On the very right Missionary Stolz standing on a road that leads through a banana plantation. About 25 Africans standing or squatting on the ground with hundreds of crocodile eggs layed out in front of them. Imprinted on the image: "Abzählung der Krokodilseier. D.O.A. No. 1335." ("Counting crocodile eggs. G[erman] E[ast] A[frica] No. 1335.") Blue ink stain on imprinted "D.". -- Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917) was a mission trader of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Ipanya from 1898 to 1902 and in Kyimbila from 1903 to 1914. He was responsible for the plantations in Kyimbila and Rutenganio. In 1898 he married Helene Elisabeth, née Kootz (1872-1899), in 1903 Anna, née Schulze.