Children bringing gifts for the harvest festival, Tabase, South Africa East, 1932

„Tabase. Kinder bringen Gaben zum Erntefest“ (“Tabase. Children are bringing gifts for the harvest festival“). Seven girls in dresses standing. The three bigger ones are carrying loads on their heads, two of them maize, apparently, and one of them a little bucket. The smaller ones are holding some maize cobs in their hands and one of them is carrying something on her head. In the background a building.; Richard Paul Moths, born in 1872 in Kösen (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1899 he married Helene Ledoux. From 1900 till 1948 he worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Silo, Baziya, Tabase). He died in 1950 in South Africa