Two painted girls in Baziya, South Africa East, 1933-12-15

"Baziya. Im Missionshof. Zwei ’geschminkte’ Heiden-Mädchen" ("Baziya. In the mission court. Two 'painted' heathen girls"). Two girls wearing draperies and headdresses are standing in a meadow. Their faces are painted. Behind them a house, a road and trees.; Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).