Dancing youth, Baziya, South Africa East, 1935

"Baziya. Kraal Hochzeit. Jungvolk beim Hochzeitsreigen. Die Kuchenträgerinnen" ("Baziya. Kraal wedding. Youth during the wedding round dance. The female cake porters"). A crowd of people standing next to huts. In the foreground some young women in dresses, carrying plates with cake on it. One is holding a stick. On the right side of the picture a man in a suit, holding a hat in his left hand. On the left side children. Other people around and behind.; Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.; c.f. pictures nos. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-8-10704, -10705, -10706, -10707, -10711, -10712, -10713, -10714, -10715.