cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10900
title: Missionaries Hennig, Zickmantel and Jansa on mules, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1905/1906

description: "Br. Hennig, Zickmantel, Jansa auf Eseln" ("Br[other] Hennig, Zickmantel, Jansa on donkeys"). Missionaries Hennig, Zickmantel and Jansa on mules next to each other, accompanied by Africans, who are standing on the left, and two dogs next to Brother Jansa. They are surrounded by shrubbery.; Photo is yellowed. -- The picture was probably taken during Missionary Hennig's trip to East Africa in 1905/06. -- Paul Otto Hennig (1857-1928) became a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in South Africa after he had married Elsbeth Gemuseus in 1891. There he serves as head of the church assembly, superintendent and also as chairman of the German mission directorate from 1906 onwards. He visited East Africa in 1905/06. -- Martin Johannes Zickmantel (1866-1922) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Marie Agnes Hartmann in 1897, he served from 1898 to 1904 in Rutenganio and from 1904 to 1914 in Rungwe, staying also some time between 1912 and 1914 in Isoko. After the death of his first wife in 1903 in Rutenganio he married Elisabeth Louise Hartmann (1882-1963) in 1906. She served again from 1928 for many years in what is now Tanzania. -- Ferdinand Jansa (1868-1957) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served in Ipanya from December 1899 to 1901, 1906 and from 1909 to 1910, in Mbozi 1901, in Kyimbila 1902 and from 1912 to 1916 and in Mwaya from 1907 to 1909. After the First World War he continued his service in Nyasa Province from May 1926 to Mai 1934. He married Caroline, née Jung (1873 - 1944), in 1899.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10901
title: Storage baskets, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1900-1921

description: "Vorratskörbe der Eingeborenen im Nord-Bezirk." ("Natives' storage baskets in the Northern District."). A big, thatched round basket on a wooden stage to the left and half of a basket without a roof to the right.  In the background: fences, bushes and trees.; One photo included from the box of duplicates. -- The picture was bought by the Moravian Archives probably in 1926 together with other pictures that were sold by Mr. Rehwagen. Whether he took the picture or not remains to be unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10902
title: Brick-kiln, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Ein Ziegelbrand in Mbozi." ("Brick-kiln in Mbozi."). View of a brick wall with conical openings at the bottom in which wooden logs have been piled up. The ones to the left are on fire. A ladder is leaning against the wall in the middle. Two men are standing on the left. In the foreground: a pile of wooden logs. In the background: another wall and trees.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10903
title: Female Christians wearing their Sunday clothes, Mbozi, Tanzania [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi. Christenfrauen in ihrer Sonntagstracht." ("Mbozi. Christian women wearing their Sunday dresses."). A group of about 40 women, some of them with small children, standing next to a thatched hut on the right and in front of palm trees. All of them are wearing white dresses and head scarfs.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10904
title: Sphinx port at Lake Nyasa, Liuli, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Nach Ost-Afrika. Hermann v. Wissmann auf dem Nyassa-See bei Sphinkshafen. Die Sphinks." ("Towards East Africa. Hermann v[on] Wissmann on Lake Nyasa at Sphinx port. Sphinx."). View of a canoe with two men and a ship on the water. In the background: view of a cape that is formed like the head of a sphinx.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10905
title: Landscape view of the Mbeya mountains, Utengule, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Das Mbeye-Gebirge. Die Station Utengule an den Vorhügeln. Abgebrannte Steppe." ("Mbeya Mountains. Utengule [Mission] Station at the foothills. Grasslands burnt [from the sun]."). Shrubbery in the foreground. In the background: mountains and distant view of a couple of buildings at the foot of a mountain.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10907
title: Missionary Giersch and his wife at their tent, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1906-1929

description: "Br. u. Schw. Giersch vor ihrem Reisezelt." ("Br[other] a[nd] Sis[ter] Giersch in front of their travelling tent."). Missionary Giersch leaning against a rope in front of his tent together with his wife seated on the right. Two beds are standing in the tent. Various equipments are scattered in front of it. In the background: a thatched hut, bushes and Africans.; Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena, née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10906
title: Christians in front of a hut, Mbozi, Tanzania [s.d.]

description: "Christen vor einer Hütte auf der Station Mbozi." ("Christians in front of a hut at Mbozi [Mission] Station."). A group of about 14 men, women and children sitting on the ground in front of a thatched round hut. The men are wearing white clothes. Two other huts on the right. Palm trees in the background.; Photo included from the box of duplicates.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10908
title: Two Christian musicians, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi. Zwei christliche Musiker." ("Mbozi. Two Christian musicians."). Two young men, dressed in white, are holding a musical instrument each. The man on the left is squatting whereas the one on the right is standing. Palm trees in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10970
title: Herd of cattle at the stable, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Viehherde bei dem Viehstall in Mbozi." ("Herd of cattle at the stable in Mbozi."). In the foreground: grass. A herd of cattle is standing in front of a tile-roofed brick building that is situated on the right-hand side. Distant view of four people standing to the left. Trees in the background.; Half of the background is retouched with white paint.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10971
title: Konde lamenting the dead, Nyasa, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Totenklage im Kondeland." ("Lamentation in Konde land."). In the background banana trees: a group of ca. 50 women is sitting together closely on the ground. Some of them are sitting on banana leaves. A thatched hut on the left.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10972
title: Residential building and kitchen, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi. Das Wohnhaus u. die Küche." ("Mbozi. Residential building a[nd] kitchen."). View of two solid rectangular houses with tiled roofs. The two-story building on the right is a large house with a roofed veranda leading around the whole building and having been plastered white. The building on the left is smaller; yet, it has two floors and a porch, as well. It is backed by another small building. Stairs are leading up to the house on the right. A fence on the left-hand side. Trees in the background. In the foreground: a road and a garden.; The photo has been heavily scratched on the right-hand side. Presumably with ink.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10973
title: Residential building, kitchen and storage house, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi. Das Wohnhaus, Küche u. Vorratshaus von hinten. Cypressen. Sisal-Agaven." ("Mbozi. Residential building, kitchen a[nd] storage house from the back. Cypress trees. Sisal plants."). View of three rectangular houses with tiled roofs. The two-story building on the left is a large house with a roofed veranda leading around the whole building and having been plastered white. The building on the right is smaller; yet, it has two floors and a porch, as well. Another small building is standing next to it on the right. A ladder is leaning against a pile of chopped wood in the backyard. Distant view of two people dressed in white. In the foreground: a road is leading to the buildings sided by shrubs, cypress trees on the left, and sisal on the right. In the background: a range of mountains.; Photo included from the box of duplicates.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10974
title: Sister Giersch next to a child on antelope's horns under papaya trees, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1906-1929

description: "2 Papayen-Bäume. Antilopen-Gehörn. Schw. Giersch." ("2 papaya trees. Antelope's horns. Sis[ter] Giersch."). Sister Giersch standing next to two papaya trees that carry lots of fruits. An African is standing in between them holding an antelope's horns on which a white child is sitting. Grassland in the background.; Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena(1882-unknown), née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10976
title: Nursemaid with the Gierschs' baby on her back, Mbozi, Tanzania, ca. 1906-1929

description: "Mbozi. Kindermädchen mit Kind von Geschw. Giersch. Tuch auf dem Rücken echtes Safwafabrikat." ("Mbozi. Nursemaid with Bre[thren] Gierschs' child. Cloth on the back [is a] real Safwa product."). Profile view of an African girl wearing a dress with a baby tied to her back. As protection against the sun, she is holding an umbrella. In the background: a path sided by bushes and trees.; Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena(1882-unknown), née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10977
title: African girl and the two Bachmann children pounding wheat, Mbozi, Tanzania, ca. 1908-1916

description: "Weizen oder Bulesi wird in einem Holztrog gestampft. Mädchen mit Ohrschmuck. Kinder von Geschw. Bachmann. Maiskolben" (Wheat or bulesi is being pounded in a wooden trough. Girl with ear jewellery. Bre[thren] Bachmanns' children. [An] ear of corn"). Portrait of an African girl with stretched out ear-lobes and two of Bachmann's children sitting behind a wooden trough. The two girls are holding pestles. Toy building blocks, an ear of corn and a basket are lying in front of the trough on the ground. Three pillars of a porch in the background.; A black line has been drawn from top to bottom on the left. -- The picture was probably taken during 1908-1916 when both Emil and Traugott Bachmann served the mission in Nyasa. -- It remains unclear whose children the children in the picture are, either those of Traugott Bachmann or those of Emil Bachmann. -- Johann Traugott Bachmann (1865-1948) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served in the year 1892 in Makapalile and from November 1892 to 1899 in Rungwe. In June 1899 he founded the station in Mbozi where he served until 1911 and from 1913 until his internment in 1915. He was married to Elisabeth, née Künzel (1872-1949). -- Emil Karl Bachmann (1875-1940) and his wife Elisabeth Marie Bachmann (1885-?) were missionaries of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine from 1908-1916. During that time they stayed in Isoko (1908-1910), Rutenganio (1910), Mwaja (1910-1912) and Rungwe (1912-1916). For the following three years they were British prisoners of war. After they were released, they became missionaries of the Berlin Mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10978
title: Domestic workers with children sitting on antelopes' horns, Ileya, Tanzania, ca. 1902-1916

description: "Ileya. Antilopengehörne. Kinder von Geschw. Kruppa. Hausangestellte." ("Ileya. Antelopes' horns. Bre[thren] Kruppas' children. Domestic servants."). Three Africans are standing in front of the porch of a thatched house holding antelopes' horns on which two white children are sitting. Another child is holding smaller horns on the right-hand side. An African woman is standing on the porch in the background.; Karl Alfred Kruppa (1874-1945) was a joiner before he became a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in 1902 after he had gotten married to Marie Elisabeth (1874-unknown), née Binder. He stayed in Utengule from 1902 to 1906 and in Ileya (Mwanda) from 1906 to 1910 where he was in charge of the foundation of a new mission station. In 1916 he was made prisoner of war by the British until 1919 after which he returned to Germany together with his wife.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10979
title: First church building, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi. Die erste Kirche." ("Mbozi. First church."). View of an old white clay building with a thatched roof. Two wooden poles support the outer wall. Banana trees and other trees in the foreground and in the background.; Four black lines have been drawn to frame the main content of the picture. A non-linear greyish white line crosses the picture from top to bottom.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10980
title: The festive inside of the first church building, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi. Das Innere der alten Kirche im Festschmuck." ("Mbozi. The inside of the old church with festive decoration."). Two rows of several tree stems serving as benches inside a clay building. Five chairs up front on a stage. The conical roof is being supported by a wooden framework. Palm leaves decorate the walls.; A strip of black paper has been glued on the bottom of the picture.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10981
title: Quarrymen, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi. Steine werden für den Hausbau gebrochen." ("Mbozi. Stones are being quarried for building a house."). Laborers with tools and baskets on the slope of a hill quarrying stones. A man dressed in white and wearing a hat is standing next to them with his back facing the viewer.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10982
title: Workers in a brickyard, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi: Die Ziegelei. In Holzmörsern wird die harte Lehmerde zu Mehl gestossen. Der Lehm wird eingefeuchtet u. durchgetreten. Trockenschuppen der Ziegelei." ("Mbozi: brickyard. In wooden mortars, hard clay soil is being pounded into powder. The clay is being moistened a[nd] treaded. Drying sheds of the brickyard. "). On the left: ten men sitting on the ground with mortars and pestles next to a pile of powdered clay soil. On the right: men standing next to a narrow channel watching others treading clay inside. In the background: men walking towards thatched shelters, trees, savanna-like landscape.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10984
title: Bricklaying for a new church building, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi: Mauerarbeit an der neuen Kirche." ("Mbozi: building walls at [the site of] the new church."). View of eight African men at a building site laying bricks for a rectangular building. Small piles of bricks are scattered all around on the ground. In the background: trees.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10985
title: Construction of a new church building, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi: Die neue Kirche im Bau." ("Mbozi: the new church in course of construction."). View of about seven African men on a scaffold framing a half-finished church building. Other boys and men standing on the ground in front of it, two lying on the ladder leaning against the scaffold. Piles of bricks and shrubs in the foreground. In the background: trees.; Photo included from the box of duplicates.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10986
title: Men pulling tree stems, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi: Holzstämme werden herangeschleift." ("Mbozi: logs of wood are being drawn closer."). View of about twenty African men pulling long logs of wood while children are standing around watching. Banana trees and bushes in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10987
title: Missionary Giersch at the joiner's workshop, Mbozi, Tanzania, ca. 1906-1929

description: "Mbozi: Die Brettschneiderei. Br. Giersch. Ein Mann führt oben die grosse Brettersäge, der andere unten im Schneideloch." ("Mbozi: joiner's workshop. Br[other] Giersch. One man guides the big saw for planks through the top of the cutting hole, the other one through the bottom [of it]."). Under the roof of a thatched shed: Missionary Giersch standing in between four wooden boards that are cut by two African joiners. In the background: a pile of logs, bushes.; Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena (1882-unknown), née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10989
title: Pulling parts of a roof onto the church building, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi: Die Balken des Kirchdaches werden auf die Kirchmauern hinaufgezogen." ("Mbozi: beams of a roof of a church are being pulled up onto the walls of the church."). View of about 30 African men, some of them standing on a scaffold and some of them on the ground, pulling ropes in order to lift beams onto the brick walls of a church building. A white man, dressed in white, is standing on the scaffold having one arm lifted up. Trees in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10990
title: New church half-finished, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi: Die neue Kirche halb fertig." ("Mbozi: the new church half-finished."). Drawing of a road leading to a church building with a roof that is partly tiled, partly thatched and partly open. Trees in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10991
title: Missionary meeting, Rungwe, Tanzania, [s.d.]

description: "Rungwe: Die Missionare der Allgem. Missionskonferenz vor "dem Saal" im Hof des Präses (spätere Wohnung von Schw. Schmidt.)" ("Rungwe: missionaries at the General Mission Conference in front of "the assembly hall" in the yard of the head of the church assembly (later Sis[ter] Schmidt's appartment.)"). A large group of male and female missionaries together with their children, partly sitting and partly standing in front of a thatched house with a porch. Part of a tiled roof is visible on the right.; Photo included from the box of duplicates. -- Photo is yellowed.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10992
title: Christian children in their Sunday dress, Mbozi, Tanzania [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi: Christenkinder in ihrem Sonntagsgewand." ("Mbozi: Christian children wearing their Sunday dress."). A group of ten children, dressed in white, standing and some of them squatting on a mat in front of two-story buildings with tiled roofs behind bushes. Their hair styles are differing from each other.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10993
title: Heathen children, Mbozi, Tanzania [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi: Heidnische Kindergruppe. (Christliche Kinder sehen am Alltag ebenso aus)." ("Mbozi: group of heathen children. (Christian children look the same on weekdays)."). A group of seven children, one of them wearing a dress whereas the others have cloth wrapped around them, sitting on a bench in front of a white clay wall. Most of them are wearing necklaces.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10994
title: Missionary Giersch and a group of singer students, Mbozi, Tanzania, ca. 1906-1929

description: "Mbozi: Singschule von Erwachsenen u. Kindern im Freien. Br. Giersch." ("Mbozi: Outside class for singing for adults a[nd] children. Br[other] Giersch."). View of Missionary Giersch standing in front of a group of sitting Africans and three white children in the front row. Two African men, dressed in white, are standing behind the group. In the foreground: a basket with three writing boards leaning against it. On the left: part of a tile-roofed building. In the background: tile-roofed huts and trees.; Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena, née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10995
title: Missionary Giersch with students, Mbozi, Tanzania, ca. 1906-1929

description: "Mbozi: Lese- u. Schreibunterricht im Freien. Br. Giersch." ("Mbozi: Outside class for reading and writing. Br[other] Giersch."). View of Missionary Giersch standing next to a group of sitting Africans placed on benches. They are all holding writing boards whereas Missionary Giersch is holding a book. In the background: a white clay wall and trees.; Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena, née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10996
title: Missionary Jansa during a christening assembly, Kyimbila, Tanzania, ca. 1899-1934

description: "Taufversammlung auf einem Aussenplatz Kyimbila's. Br. Jansa. Die Täuflinge in weissen Kleidern" ("Christening assembly on an outskirt of Kyimbila. Br[other] Jansa. Those to be baptized [are wearing] white clothes"). Missionary Jansa and six Africans are sitting in front of a group of others wearing white clothes. On the left: four missionaries seated on stools facing them. In the background: more people, trees, mountains.; Ferdinand Jansa (1868-1957) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served in Ipanya from December 1899 to 1901, 1906 and from 1909 to 1910, in Mbozi 1901, in Kyimbila 1902 and from 1912 to 1916 and in Mwaya from 1907 to 1909. After the First World War he continued his service in Nyasa Province from May 1926 to Mai 1934. He married Caroline, née Jung (1873 - 1944), in 1899.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10998
title: Christian men in their Sunday dress, Mbozi, Tanzania [s.d.]

description: "Mbozi: Männergruppe von Christen in ihren Sonntagsgewändern." ("Mbozi: group of Christian men wearing their Sunday clothes."). A group of 26 men, dressed in white, standing and some of them seated or squatting. Their hair styles and head wear are differing from each other. In the background: banana trees, a thatched hut with a fence on the right.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11000
title: Young Konde men, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1891-1920

description: "Konde-Ebene. Süsses Nichtstun. Junge Männer essen geröstete Bananen." ("Konde plain. Dolce far niente. Young men eating roasted bananas."). Four young men laying on the ground around a small mat displaying banana chips and eating. They are wearing clothes wrapped around their waists held up by brass rings. One of them is wearing brass bracelets. Other men are squatting in the background on the right. The setting is surrounded by banana trees.; The picture was bought by the Moravian Archives from Rehwagen in 1926.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11001
title: Shot lion and giant python, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1891-1920

description: "Station Makete im Kinga-Hochland. Löwe. Riesenschlange" ("Makete Station in the Kinga highlands. Lion. Giant python."). A shot lion and a giant python laying next to each other on a lawn in front of a solid house to the right with a fenced in area to the left. In the background: a range of mountains.; The picture was bought by the Moravian Archives from Rehwagen in 1926.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11002
title: Konde mother and son playing an instrument, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1891-1920

description: "Konde-Oberland. Neuere Musik. Verschieden gestimmte Hölzer liegen lose auf 2 Bananenstümpfen u. werden von zwei sich gegenüber Sitzenden mit je zwei Hölzern geschlagen. Mutter u. Sohn. Eigenartige Haarfrisur" ("Konde highland. New music. Differently tuned wooden bars laying loosely on 2 banana stubs a[nd] are hit by two people sitting opposite from each other with two sticks each. Mother a[nd] son. Strange hair style"). A woman on a mat wearing four brass rings around her waist and having a pattern shaved on her mainly bald head is playing a kind of xylophone together with a boy sitting opposite from her. The dressed lower part of a man's body is depicted in the background on the left. A fence in the background behind the lower parts of banana trees.; One photo included from the box of duplicates. -- The picture was bought by the Moravian Archives from Rehwagen in 1926.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11003
title: Caravan crossing Lufilyo River, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca.1891-1920

description: "Trägerkarawane durchschreitet den Lufilyo-Fluss in den Bergen." ("Caravan of porters strides through Lufilyo River in the mountains."). A caravan of porters lined up carrying all types of goods crossing a river by foot. In the background: a slope of a mountain with grass and bushes growing.; The picture was bought by the Moravian Archives from Rehwagen in 1926.