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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.

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."

Larry Klippenstein, Mennonite Pioneer Mission worker, is docking his boat. He and his wife held meetings at Matheson Island, Loon Straits, Pine Dock and the Bloodvein First Nation. Dated Oct. 1956. See also CM 4-35-6. Used in CM 5-25-4 with article.

Written on slide: "Boys Ward P"

Written on slide: "Boys Ward P"

Written on slide: "Maetha Haety - wife of Indian chief"

Used in CM 6-36-4. Margaret Reimer (left) & Katherine Friesen (right) push off in a canoe to cross the river. They were teaching summer Bible school here, possibly as a program of Mennonite Pioneer Mission. Wild rice growing; community members in background. C.f. CM 11-24-9 re. reserve.

Caption in CM: "This is not one house but several. By living in a united way Indians can keep their traditions through the centuries. They use mud and straw to build their houses. Their life in the highlands is difficult." Used in CM 6-41-4. Written on back of photograph: "Indians use mud and straw to build their houses. Life is very hard for the people living on the mountains and highland in Bolivia."

Caption in CM: "This is not one house but several. By living in a united way Indians can keep their traditions through the centuries. They use mud and straw to build their houses. Their life in the highlands is difficult." Used in 6-41-4.