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• Author: By Miss. Clean in Ikutha. Scope: p. 78-81* 100-102 Contains, among other things: - (SW: birth; skin colour; naming; circumcision; exhibition after birth with sacrifices and sorcery; care of children) - (SW: care; body painting; infant mortality; courtship; work of adolescents)

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,2 X 8,4. Description: Skull place under rocks, old man sacrificing, man i. Background (Pare). Remark: "Wizard" i. Title crossed out. Reference: 2 flat film negatives and cardboard no. 44 in negative box. Cf. postcard box, No. P15a (14.0 X 9.1) P15b (13.9 X 9.0) "Wizard at the libation before the skulls of the ancestors (East Africa)" Series India II, No. 3; P15a is described.

• Author: By Miss. Althaus in Kwarango. May 1894. Scope: p. 325-330* 345-348. Includes among others: - (SW: Description of a homestead; language studies with natives) - (SW: Miss. Althaus - studies of language and customs in the farmsteads; sacrificial meal; "faith" of the Wadschagga)

Author: Excerpt from Miss's diaries. Faßman and Müller. Scope: pp. 278-281. Contains, among other things: - (SW: Good Friday - bell consecration at the station Kwarango; WaMadchame sacrifice Irua - God in the courts of the chiefs or other noblemen; school; illness - traditional healing methods - magic; garden and mission field; burial of a Maasai shepherd - employed at the station)

Author: According to Br. Hofmann's diary. Scope: pp. 195-199. Includes, inter alia: - "First God's protection in snake danger." (SW: snake killing) - "Second drought and inflation." (SW: Drought; victims; capture of old debtors by some Wakamba) - "3. Our Christmas party." - "Fourth move and move. New division of Ukamba Province." - "Fifth Missionary Work." "6th Br. Säuberlich's Arrival."

Author: According to Miss's diary. Hofmann. Scope: p. 99-102. Contains, among other things: - "First ghost sacrifice to obtain rain." (SW: little rain; magic - offering of sacrifices; drums; Kilumi-range) - "2. famine, snakes etc." (SW: famine and atrocities in the north - rural exodus; hunting; snake doctor Kimia) - "3rd mission work." (SW: School and Education; Divine Service)

Author: By Miss. Cooper in Nkarungo. Scope: p. 440-446. Contains, among other things: - (SW: superstition; ghost service; sorcery; a creator god Irua - means sun, heaven god; prayers in KiMadchame on important occasions; sacrificial procedures; ghost names)

Author: According to Miss's diary. Althaus in Mamba, Sept. 1895. Scope: S. 14-20. Includes among others: - "First, all sorts of work on the ward." (SW: school building; lessons; chieftains Bararia and Koimbere; sacrifice) - "2nd reception of the new missionaries". (SW: Arrival of Miss Segebrock and Ovir; Miss Ovir to Madchame)