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Christmas Meeting of an Old Woman's Class, Tumutumu, Kenya, ca.1905-ca.1940 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS7-048)

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Christmas Meeting of an Old Woman's Class, Tumutumu, Kenya, ca.1905-ca.1940 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS7-048)

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Christmas Meeting of an Old Woman's Class, Tumutumu, Kenya, ca.1905-ca.1940
Photograph of a Christmas meeting of an old woman's class at the mission station of Tumutumu. A group of women are gathered outdoors sitting in a circle. 4 women are standing inside the circle and there are bags, possibly containing food sitting on the ground.; 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-LS7-048.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_Volume7/1654.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: [email protected]
Subject (lcsh Keyword): Older women; Christmas
Date created: 1905/1940
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): group portraits
Format (aat): lantern slides
Legacy record ID: impa-m68761
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS7/48

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