Assistant teacher Lotokorduaki and his family, Arusha, Tanzania, ca.1907-1930

"Hilfslehrer Lotokorduaki" ("Assistant teacher Lotokorduaki"). Lotokorduaki and his wife sitting. Four children. In front of a house built in a style similar to traditional Chaga/West Kilimanjaro houses with its roof thatched with the bark of the banana tree. In the front right a storage hut. Behind it a rectangular house thatched with plant fiber. In the background banana plants.; Cf. photo no. 39, album no. 17. For Lotokorduaki cf. photos nos. 31 and 32, album no. 2. -- Leonhard Blumer (1878-1938), from Kida in Estonia, served the Leipzig Mission as pastor and teacher in Arusha from 1907 to 1930 (apart from home leave in 1912-1913 and 1924-1926).