Beer pots, Usoke, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Biertöpfe (beim Oberhäuptling in Vukuga, neue Aussenstation von Ussoke)" ("Beer pots (at the paramount chief's in Vukuga, Ussoke's new outstation)"). The beer pots (probably made of clay) in the foreground, four large ones are standing upside down. Three smaller pots in front of them, as well as a bowl that could be part of a broken pot. Africans and poles in the background.; 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)