Children, diversely dressed and styled, Mvenyane, South Africa East, 1933

„Bei Mvenyane. Verschieden bekleidete und frisierte Kaffer-Kinder (der zweite von links hat ein Schaffell um)“ („Near Mvenyane. Kaffir children diversely dressed and styled (the second from the left is wearing a sheepskin)“). Five children with diverse hairstyles. Four sitting, one standing, in a plain landscape. The girl on the right side is wearing a light coloured dress. The two children left to her are dressed in draperies and the one left to them is wearing a sheepskin. The one leftmost is only half visible. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).