The maize counting game, South Africa East

„Beim Maiszähl-Spiel“ („During the maize counting game“). Thirteen children are sitting or kneeling in a meadow under some trees. Maize cobs are lying between them on the ground in a line. The children are looking at the maize cobs, exept one girl in a plaid dress who is sitting a bit apart. Behind the group of children a woman standing and watching them. In the background a building and trees. 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.