Festively dressed children, Tanzania, ca.1913-1938

"vgl 815" ("cf. 815"). Four girls wearing European dresses and one boy standing next to each other. Three of the girls wearing flower garlands on their heads. In the background a crowd of children and adults. In correlation with photos nos. 813, 814 and 815, album no. 3. -- The addendum "D." Gutmann in the caption of photo no. 813, album no. 3 suggests that the photo might have been taken after Gutmann received his first honory doctorate in 1924. If, furthermore, the ascription of Guth as photographer is correct, the photo was most probably taken between 1927 and 1938. Seeing that photos nos. 813 and 816, album no. 3 were possibly taken on the same occasion, the dating might also be the same. -- Wilhelm Guth (1888-1980), from Zeiskam in the Rhineland Palatinate, studied commerce before joining the Leipzig Mission as a pastor. He served in Gonja (southern Pare) from 1913 to 1917 and from 1927 to 1938. He left a large number of photographs, mostly taken by himself but including some by members of his family or fellow missionaries.