Young woman with headband and ear disc, Mbozi, Tanzania, [s.d.]

"Junge Frau mit Stirnband und Ohrscheibe." ("Young woman with headband and ear disc."). Profile portrait of head and shoulders. Young woman with a scarified face and partly shaved head wearing a beaded head band and a studded ear disc with a diameter of ca. 8-10 cm.; Additional information: "Safwa-Frau" ("Safwa woman"). -- Paul Theodor Meyer (1864-1933) was a son of the missionary Philipp Ludwig Heinrich Meyer. Together with Théophile Richard, Georg Martin and Johannes Häfner he started the missionary work of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in what is now Tanzania in 1891. He founded the mission stations Rungwe in 1891, Rutenganio, Utengule and Ipanya between 1894 and 1897. From 1891 to 1916 he was superintendent of Rungwe missionary province. After being interned for three years he returned to Germany in 1919.