Instruction of men amongst the Chaga, Tanzania, ca.1913-1938

"Symbolik der Männerlehre III: Erklärung der Zeugungsvorgänge" ("Symbolic instruction of men, III: explaining conception"). Four elderly men dressed in cloths squatting on the ground, another one's arm(?) on the far right. One man demonstrating something to the others using a stick. Set in a banana grove.; In correlation with photos nos. 777 and 778, album no. 3. -- Wilhelm Guth (1888-1980), from Zeiskam in the Rhineland Palatinate, studied commerce before joining the Leipzig Mission as a pastor. He served in Gonja (southern Pare) from 1913 to 1917 and from 1927 to 1938. He left a large number of photographs, mostly taken by himself but including some by members of his family or fellow missionaries.