Tembu women with festive headdresses, Baziya, South Africa East, [s.d.]

"Baziya. Tembu-Frauen mit festl. Kopftuchtracht" ("Baziya. Tembu women with festive headdresses"). Three women with draperies on their shoulders, pearl necklaces, earrings and diverse patterned headdresses. Two of them have white painted faces.; 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