Chagga people, Tanzania, ca.1900-1914

Photograph of Chagga people. Eight standing children (mostly girls) are visible in the foreground, four men and one woman are standing behind them. One other man is sitting right in the middle. They are all dressed in cloths. In the background banana plants and a small house made of plant fibres and mud is visible.; Cf. picture no. 016_0007, Photographs of Emil Müller.; Emil Müller (1868-1940) was one of the founders of the missionary work of the Leipzig Mission in German East Africa. From 1893 to 1920 and from 1931 to 1933 he served the Leipzig Mission in Machame, a station founded in 1893. He is the author of a dictionary of the Chagga language published in 1947.