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Title	Two Safwa female students, Tanzania, 1929
Description	"Hoch-Safwa[.] 2 Schülerinnen mit Lippenringen." ("Upper Safwa[.] 2 female students with lip rings."). Portrait of the upper body: two young women with necklaces and the lower lip pierced with a large ring.; Cf. photo no. 6677, probably taken on the same occasion. -- Additional information: "Erhalten v. Br. Giersch 1929." ("Received from Br[other] Giersch 1929."). -- 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.
Subject (aat)	double portraits
Subject (unesco)	Jewelry Youth Women students Women
Geographic subject (country)	Tanzania
Geographic subject (region)	Nyasa
Geographic subject (continent)	Africa
Coverage date	1929
Photographer	Unknown
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1929
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	photographic prints, 8.2 x 11.1 cm.
Format (aacr2)	color slide no. 6806
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m3724
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
Rights	Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Access conditions	Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Repository name	Moravian Archives
Repository address	Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
Repository email	unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Filename	IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06806
Archival file	impa_Volume168/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06806.tiff

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