cover image: Tembu girl with necklace and skin rash, South Africa East

Tembu girl with necklace and skin rash, South Africa East

„Tembu-Mädchen mit Halsschmuck und Hautausschlag“ („Tembu girl with necklace and skin rash“). A girl standing, wearing a dress with striped borders, bangles on her feet and arms, necklaces, a headdress and a drapery bound around her chest. Behind her a horse, a building and a tree. 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.
girls indigenous populations portraits skin diseases
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57884
Format
Photographic prints Photographs
Pages
7.7 x 3.7 cm
Place Discussed
Africa South Africa Unknown
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
South Africa
Reference
impa-m57884 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-4-08390
Rights
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany http://www.archiv.ebu.de unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/2db01efbbb131462c12cf4c6d29652c1

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