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 is a photo of an aboriginal woman and two children. The woman and older child are standing behind a wheelbarrow in which the younger child is sitting. Behind them on the left is log house with a gable of siding boards and adorned with elk (?) antlers and possibly a cowbell. Outside, beside the door, is a bookcase with cooking utensils. There is a chopping block on the right with a crude tower and rope-operated contraption behind that. In the background is another building.
The photo shows an indigenous person standing in front of two primitive houses in Hoffnungsfeld in 1928. The homes are in a treed area and a primitive cart is seen on the right side in the foreground. A hammock is attached to two trees in front of the doorway of one home. The homes appear to be made of clay bricks with thatched roofs.
The photo shows an indigenous man and woman using a primitive plow hitched up to a pair of oxen to plow a field at Hoffnungsfeld. There are a couple of trees scattered throughout the field with denser bush surrounding the field.
The photo shows seven people unloading sacks of unknown content from the caterpillar. There are two people near a warehouse on the left side. An assortment of primitive farm implements are seen in the foreground including several plows and a harrow.
The photo shows several indigenous men building a road in the sump in Hoffnungsfeld. There is the frame of a building in the center of the photo. It is surrounded by mixed vegetation: grass, bushes and trees.
The photo shows five indigenous workers chopping a tree trunk into poles at Hoffnungsfeld. In the foreground is grassland with the Chaco bush in the background.
The photo shows two indigenous men transporting poles on a primitive cart with wooden wheels across grassland at Hoffnungsfeld. The bush is in the background.
The picture shows two indigenous men cleaning Quebracho tree trunks in Hoffnungsfeld. A third man appears to be working on a plank beside the warehouse which burned in January 1929. This area is surrounded by the Chaco bush.
The photo shows Mr. Landreth posing in front of a canvas draped box in Hoffnungsfeld. Behind him on the left is an indigenous man on a horse and on the right two covered wagons.
The photo shows five workers at the nursery garden at Hoffnungsfeld. One worker has a spade, another a hoe, two appear to be seeding by hand and the fifth one is watering with a metal watering can. The planting rows have been neatly staked out and the garden is surrounding by a barbed wire fence, beyond which is bush.
The photo shows Chief Cambyray dressed in a white shirt and tie and long pants, posing in front of a tree at Hoffnungsfeld. An indigenous person is walking past him in the background.
This photo is of one of the first meetings between Mennonites and First Nations in the Paraguayan Chaco, taken in front of huts built out of hay. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 52.