People sitting in front of their huts, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1937

"Ein Eingeborenendorf im Goldgebiet. Rechts der Kuhkraal, links Biertöpfe." ("An African village in the Gold Region. Right hand: a craal, left hand: beer crocks.") Men, women and children are sitting on the ground in front of thatched huts. Two men are sitting on a kind of chair in front of the group. On the left: large crocks lying on the ground. The group is divided into two parts. On the left next to a hut: women and children almost naked. On the right: men and women wearing European clothes. Between these two parts a gap.; Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.