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Title	Mathilde Gemuseus distributes salt to the widows of the congregation, Rungwe, Tanzania, 1931
Description	"Rungwe. Abschied. Schw. Gemuseus teilt Salz aus." ("Rungwe. Farewell. S[ister] Gemuseus distributes salt."). A group of ca. 35 African women is seated on the ground while Mathilde Gemuseus, an African woman and a girl with a bowl stand among them. The European woman distributes salt to the standing African woman.; Cf. photos no. 7439 and 7441. -- Oskar Gemuseus (1874 - 1959) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as headmaster from 1907 to 1916, as mission superintendent of Nyassa [Nyasa] Province from 1925 to 1930, as bishop from 1932 to 1939. Starting in 1939 he wrote a history of the mission in Nyasa Province ("Wechselnde Gezeiten an den Gestaden des Nyassa"). His wife was Mathilde, née Richter. See his publications: "Mission und Gold", Herrnhut 1936; "Ein Gebundener Jesu Christi (über Fiwombe)", Hamburg 1950; "Sakalija Mwakasungala", Hamburg 1953.
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Minerals Religious communities Clergy Indigenous populations
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Rungwe
Geographic subject (country)	Tanzania
Geographic subject (continent)	Africa
Coverage date	1931-08
Photographer	Unknown
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1931-08
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	photographic prints, 11.2 x 8.3 cm.
Format (aacr2)	2 copies, one missing
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m8607
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
References	"Schwester Gemuseus teilt zum Abschied in Rungwe Salz an etwa 50 Witwen aus" ("Sister Gemuseus distributes salt to ca. 50 widows at the farewell in Rungwe"). In: Missionsblatt der Brüdergemeine 96, p. 7. Herrnhut: Missionsbuchhandlung, 1932.
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-2-07440
Archival file	impa_Volume172/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-07440.tiff

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