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Married Woman, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1905-ca.1940
Portrait photograph of a married Kikuyu woman. The woman is heavily decorated with jewellery round her neck and arms and is wearing a headdress. The portrait image is head and shoulders only and is in black and white.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Kikuyu Mission in Kenya, which was set up by Church of Scotland missionaries. Hospitals were established by Scottish missionaries in Kikuyu in 1908, in Tumutumu in 1909, and in Chogoria in 1922. The missionaries also introduced the Presbyterian Church to the area. The Kikuyu are Kenyaas most populous ethnic group.
Photographer: Unknown
Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS7-011.tif
Coverage date: 1905/1940
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1623.url
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Geographic subject (country): Kenya
Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
Geographic subject (continent): Africa
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: Kenya Mission LS7
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Subject (lcsh Keyword): Women; Clothing and dress
Date created: 1905/1940
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): portraits
Format (aat): lantern slides
Legacy record ID: impa-m68728
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS7/11
Date 1905/1940
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/64743
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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