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This photo is of 4 "Indians" sitting dressed in period dress. Two gentlemen are wearing suits. Two women are wearing shawls, possibly more traditional dress. Hands are folded on their laps. Turi Wiepar & Deacon George.

This photo is of the first Indiginous baptismal group in the Paraguayan Chaco, consisting of seven young males belonging to the Lengua nation. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 56.

An Indigenous man stands in front of a log house in winter. Three children are also visible in the photograph. Perhaps this is a newly built home for a family. CM 7-16-7 has an article about Henry Neufeld's task of assisting people to build better houses. Probable location is Pauingassi, Manitoba. Negative also.

Group of children at Christmas time. The children of the Otto Hamms may be part of the group; this would mean this was at Cross Lake. It could also be at Pauingassi in the school house See CM 7-16-5; 7-16-7.

This photo was together with 14.4275. An Indigenous family, probably Ojibwe on the Bloodvein reserve.

Negative also. Used in CM 8-21-5. Two Indigenous young men in front of a log house. One young man is sawing wood. Taken where MPM personnel worked? See arts. & photos re. MPM in CM 7-16-5 to 7-16-8. Smaller photo (9x6.5) also.

Indigenous woman standing beside a dwelling in an open, snow covered area. Walls are made with logs and various materials cover the roof. Caption in The Canadian Mennonite: "The Old: Housing conditions for many Indians are extremely unsatisfactory."

Henry Berg and several men are building the chapel. Building homes & schools was also part of MPM's work. See 14.4255 re. completed building & Otto Hamm's book, p.16 where this photo was used.

Dr. Rakko, the doctor for the Neuland Colony stands beside the ambulance which is parked beside his office building (see 2001-14.36). Two nurses stand on the other side of the vehicle as well as 2 patients: a woman with her arm in a cast and an Indigenous man in hosptial gown holding a child.The vehicle has been identified as a 1961 Mercedes Benz that was manufactured into an ambulance by the Binz Corporation in Lorch, Germany.

Negative also. Margaret Hamm and children stand in front of mission home with six Cross Lake children and Helen Willms. They began Sunday School Nov. 1956 when the Hamm family came to Cross Lake. See 14.4252 f., CM 7-16-6.

Matty Dirks, wife of the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren missionary Sylverter Dirks, walks down a jungle path followed by several Indigenous women and children, probably Campas, near the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren mission station of El Encuentro.

Three negs., not used in the CM, taken at the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren mission station El Encuentro. Some information is on the enclosed note. One neg. is described as: "Farewell 'banquet' under the mango tree. The Indians preferred sitting in a huddle flat on the ground while they ate." The other 2 negs. show houses at Tourna-Vista, one built by R. G. LeTourneau for jungle living, the other a Peruvian workman's home - well above average in construction. See articles in the CM 4-38-4, 4-39-4 and 4-40-4 for more information.

Used in CM 4-42-4. The 4 children of a Peruvian Christian family. Used with the last of Margaret A. Epp's articles about the work of the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren missionaries in Peru, where her sister Matty, wife of Slyvester Dirks lived and worked with her husband at the El Encuentro mission station. This article series begins in 2010-14.401.

Negatives only, 2 similar ones. One used in CM 4-32-1. Rev. J. J. Thiessen, moderator of Canadian district, welcomes Samuel Stephen, principal of a Mennonite High school in India & John S. Timber, chairman of the Montana Indian Mennonite Churches, to the 34th meeting of the GCMC in Wpg. In photo used Thiessen shakes hands with Stephen.

Two copies of photo. Caption on back of smaller one (13x9), Helen Willms wrote "A group of school children at the Bloodvein Indian Reserve which is almost entirely Catholic, yet a number of families are requesting a Protestant schoolteacher." Caption on front of larger photo: "Where MPM may open mission. Helen Willms, Matheson Island."