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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79542
title: Missionary with Vanuatuans mourning death of a chief, Anatom, ca.1890

description: “Group of natives gathered at the wailing of the death of a chief.” Exterior view showing James Hay Lawrie leaning on a tree next to a group of indigenous men and women seated at the wake of a chief. There could be several chiefs in one particular village and their influence varied from one to another. Lawrie was a Presbyterian missionary from Edinburgh and based on Aneityum [Anatom], New Hebrides [Vanuatu], from 1879-1896. Later he was minister of several charges in New South Wales. He died in 1929.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79494
title: Seven Tannese women and girls, Tanna, ca.1890

description: “Tanna - Women semi-civilized. The petticoat, made of the pandanus and banana leaves, formed the only dress of the native women. Those in the picture have added a jacket of European cloth. The necklaces are made of shells.”  Group portrait of seven women of varying ages. They stand in line on a grassed area with trees to the rear. Pandanus is a fruiting plant found in China, India, South East Asia, and Oceania where almost every part of the plant is used for housing, clothing and textiles, food, medication, decorative handicrafts, fishing, and religious uses.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79498
title: Indigenous church, Ambrym, ca.1890

description: “Ambrim [Ambrym] - Native church built by two Christian teachers. The island is unhealthy, and still heathen. Like Tanna, it is volcanic, and subject to earthquakes.”  Ambrym, the fifth largest of Vanuatu, is well known for its highly active volcanic activity that includes lava lake formation. Several times per century its volcano has destructive eruptions. The summit of the volcano contains a desert-like caldera which covers an area of 100 square km. Ambrym is the site of two active volcanic cones, Benbow and Marum (also spelled Maroum). Mt Benbow last erupted in 1913, causing the evacuation of the population to Mele, near Port Vila on Éfaté. In The Scottish Churches’ Work Abroad, J. H. Morrison writes of the problems these conditions posed: ‘Ambrim [Ambrym] has boiled over time and again, and sent broad streams of lava down to the sea. Sometimes services are conducted under a steady fall of ashes and soot, until preacher and congregation, whatever their original hue, are all reduced to an indistinguishable black. In 1913 the island was shaken to its very foundations, the ocean around was raised to boiling-point, and when the catastrophe passed, the beautiful Mission hospital lay under 70 feet of water’ (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1927. 189-190).
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80254
title: Brick moulder at work, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Brickmaking. Lump of clay ready for moulding. The Moulder." Outdoor portrait of an indigenous worker fashioning bricks using a mould. A brick tilery was first built in Blantyre in 1882, and work began training African men to become bricklayers. Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi] was an industrial mission which developed skills such as carpentry and bricklaying, and bricks were necessary to construct the many mission buildings, including the renowned St Michael and All Angels church.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79521
title: Men and children, Tanna, ca.1890

description: “Group of Tannese.” Group portrait of indigenous men and children wearing cloth wrapped around their waists and, for some, around their heads.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79775
title: Mwimbi Young Warriors, Chogoria, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Mwimbi Young Warriors". Grou portrait of young male warriors carrying spears and shields. The site of Chogoria sits on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, 35 miles from the summit at 17,040 feet, and administered to the Chuka, Mwimbi and Meru tribes. Mission station established by Dr A.C. Irvine, his wife and Mr Ernest Carr when they arrived, in 1922, from TumuTumu. Despite the Christian presence, traditional practices still took place including one called 'spear blooding' in which using a weapon for the first time was regarded as an initiation into manhood, often resulted in the death of someone, sometimes young girls.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79503
title: Four young men, Vanuatu, ca.1890

description: “Heathen and savage.” Group portrait of four New Hebridean [Vanuatuan] men on board a ship, used to illustrate the notion of the non-Christian heathens.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79988
title: Mr. H. E. Osborn, Malawi, ca.1925

description: "Mr. H. E. Osborn visiting a Native at the door of his grass hut." Mr H. E. Osborn of the Nyasaland Field Force, awarded rank of Lieutenant 1st November 1917, crouched at the entrance to a thatched hut in the doorway of which sits an African man. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79731
title: Rev Doctor David Scott, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "Mr Watson was succeeded by Dr. Ruffelle Scott, who was sent out by the Church of Scotland as head on their taking over the Mission in the year 1901. In 1903, he buried his wife at Kikuyu, and after six years faithful service, he was laid to rest beside her, in October 1907." Portrait of Rev. Dr. David Ruffelle Clement Scott [1853-1907] who was married to Edith Ruffelle until her death in 1903. Scott is credited with designing the church at Blantyre, the mission site he resided at before Kikuyu. ❧ "This Lecture was prepared by Dr J.W. Arthur in October 1911 on his voyage to Mombasa. The set of slides is the gift to the Kikuyu Mission of the Young Peoples Meeting at the Burgh Hall, Hillhead, of which he was for many years a member." A green folder marked 'Kikuyu' and containing lecture notes and relevant photographs to accompany lantern slides.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79734
title: Mount Kenya, Kikuyu, Kenya, May 1908

description: "Kikuyu, March 5th 1909. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." "Mt Kenya, Altitudde 19000'. 5'30'' P.M. May 1 1908, Telephoto from Nairobi, Distance 90 miles, 196 magnifications" Landscape view of Mount Kenya by H. Binks ❧ "This Lecture was prepared by Dr J.W. Arthur in October 1911 on his voyage to Mombasa. The set of slides is the gift to the Kikuyu Mission of the Young Peoples Meeting at the Burgh Hall, Hillhead, of which he was for many years a member." A green folder marked 'Kikuyu' and containing lecture notes and relevant photographs to accompany lantern slides.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79867
title: Group portrait, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1930

description: "Mrathuia's[?]". Group portrait showing a European woman seated in front of a woven and thatched hut with thirteen native women seated and standing around her, one of these women carries a baby. They are situated at the children’s mission of Mihecani in Portuguese East Africa. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80074
title: Five boys, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "5 different tribes Yao, Sena, Mang'anja, Anguru, Angoni." Group portrait of five boys standing in a row facing the camera, they are all wearing light coloured clothing. There are trees and buildings in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79806
title: Dead Rhinoceros, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Rhino". Portrait of a dead Rhinoceros lying on its side on a wide bare plain. The animal was probably killed during a hunting safari from the Kikuyu Mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79747
title: Boys carrying bricks, Kenya, September, 1926

description: Group portrait of four young boys and a male adult carrying bricks and other building materials. Tumutumu was established in 1909 by Rev. Henry Scott and Dr. John Arthur and is situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya, 130km north of Nairobi. The mission was set up as a clinic but soon expanded to include a school and church serving the Kikuyu population indigenous to the region. Boys were often taught skills such as carpentry as the training enabled them to build better homes for themselves and others and provide them with a trade. By these means, they would be expected to become relatively prosperous and would keep them at the mission for longer periods of time. It was hoped that this would mean that these young men would become well-instructed Christians. Industrial schools were an important aspect of the work by the missions in Africa. The training of apprentices and raising of educational standards was considered important in establishing the foundations for commerce and trade
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79832
title: Cotton transportation, Malawi, ca.1911

description: "Cotton bales." Exterior view showing a large expanse of flat land with large open-sided huts with thatched roofs to the right of the image and corrugated metal roofed brick and thatched huts to the left of the image. In the mid-ground on the right of the image are three sets of oxen drawn carts piled with bales of cotton. There are a large amount of felled trees in the mid-ground on the left of the image in front of the buildings and processed timber stored in the open-sided huts on the right of the image. Each cart is lead by eight oxen and carries eight large bales of cotton. There are rolling hills in the background covered with a variety of trees and scrubland. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79870
title: Sisal workers and plant, Mozambique, ca.1930

description: "Sisal & Mats". View showing the top of two sisal plants. There are a group of people standing behind the plants to the right of the image holding examples of Sisal work and behind them a European woman can be seen. Sisal hemp is derived from the Agave plant and traditionally used in the making of twine and rope. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79730
title: Mr Watson, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1899

description: "The Rev. Thomas Watson led the work at Kikuyu from 1898 - 1900 when he died." Portrait of the Reverend Thomas Watson. He is buried at Kikuyu along with his wife ❧ Mrs Minnie Cumming Watson (1867-1949) who remained at Kikuyu until 1931 working as the Headmistress of Schools. ❧ "This Lecture was prepared by Dr J.W. Arthur in October 1911 on his voyage to Mombasa. The set of slides is the gift to the Kikuyu Mission of the Young Peoples Meeting at the Burgh Hall, Hillhead, of which he was for many years a member." A green folder marked 'Kikuyu' and containing lecture notes and relevant photographs to accompany lantern slides.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79728
title: First Christian Marriage, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "We are glad the girls work is now going strongly, and one reason is we desire our Christian lads to marry Christian lads to marry Christian girls who by education and training have become fit helps for them. It is not only hard for them, but a very serious drag upon them if they have to marry heathen girls with no training, & with only slight knowledge of their husbands faith. Many of our lads are now buying their wives, and bringing them into the Boarding School for a years training before they marry them. This girl was married to Andrea, one of the senior teachers, - theirs was the first Christian marriage to be solemnised at Kikuyu." Portrait of young girl, Mbutu, who was married to Andrea, a senior teacher. ❧ "This Lecture was prepared by Dr J.W. Arthur in October 1911 on his voyage to Mombasa. The set of slides is the gift to the Kikuyu Mission of the Young Peoples Meeting at the Burgh Hall, Hillhead, of which he was for many years a member." A green folder marked 'Kikuyu' and containing lecture notes and relevant photographs to accompany lantern slides.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79986
title: Helen Elizabeth Watson, Malawi, ca.1938

description: "Helen Elizabeth Watson, B. 29.6.36". Portrait of the daughter of Henry Steel Watson and Margaret Elizabeth Watson. Originally ordained, in 1923, to the Iringa mission, Tanganyika [Tanzania], they moved to Mihecani in 1927 and then onto Blantyre. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80092
title: Hammock bearers, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1910

description: "Hammock & Bearers". Exterior view showing a group of men carrying a large hammock, known as a machila, along a path between two hills. There are people in the distance on the right of the image, and foliage along side the path.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79742
title: Cart and Outspan, Tumutumu, Kenya, September 1926

description: "European Cart and Outspan". External view with livestock chained together to pull a wooden cart loaded with materials. Tumutumu was established in 1908 by Rev. Henry Scott and Dr. John Arthur and is situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya, 130km north of Nairobi. The mission was set up as a clinic but soon expanded to include a school and church serving the Kikuyu population indigenous to the region. Arthur Ruffelle Barlow (1888-1965), the nephew of David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1853-1907) and co-editor of the first Kikuyu – English Dictionary, was the first resident missionary at Tumutumu.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79803
title: Commemorative plaque, Scotland, ca.1923-1929

description: Plaque engraved, "In the centenary year of Scottish missions to India this tablet is erected by the Scottish churches in grateful remembrance of those who as messengers of Scottish Christianity first claimed India for Christ. Donald Mitchell-Jan. 1823. John Cooper-Aug. 1823. John Stevenson-Feb. 1824. James Mitchell-Aug.1823. Robert Nesbit-Sept. 1827. Alexander Crawford-Aug 1823. John Wilson-Feb. 1829. ‘The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord-Amen and Amen.’ (Last words of Donald Mitchell- Nov. 20 1823.)".
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79732
title: Rev Doctor Henry Scott, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "With the arrival of Dr.Henry E. Scott in Decr. of that year, a new life of hopefulness came upon the work. The Mission has now passed finally into our hands, and money was forthcoming for increased staffing, and the proper development of the work. In his prime and with his 17 years of wide experience of Missionary work in Central Africa, Dr. Scott came to us full of zeal and energy. In the last three and a quarter short years, he was permitted to work at Kikuyu, he was the means of laying, wisely and strongly the foundations of a great educational and industrial work. Not only however did he work for the uplift of the native but by his work on behalf of the education of white children, his ministrations in St. Andrews Church of Nairobi on behalf of our fellow Presbyterians, and by his starting of the Y.M.C.A. he will long be remembered with gratitude by a large number of Europeans, by whom he was highly respected. By his death on April 11th 1911, at the early age of 47, we as a Mission have suffered a deep loss, but we are confident that in some mysterious way it is in accordance with the will of God, and that out of this strong arduous life so faithfully laid down for the of native and white man alike, there will come an abundant harvest on our work." Portrait of Rev Dr Henry E. Scott, at Kikuyu mission from 1907 until his death in 1911. ❧ "This Lecture was prepared by Dr J.W. Arthur in October 1911 on his voyage to Mombasa. The set of slides is the gift to the Kikuyu Mission of the Young Peoples Meeting at the Burgh Hall, Hillhead, of which he was for many years a member." A green folder marked 'Kikuyu' and containing lecture notes and relevant photographs to accompany lantern slides.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80250
title: African mission worker, Malawi, ca.1926

description: “Native Heads of Departments. Pearson.” Portrait of an African mission worker seated outside a building. Part of an album of photographs relating to Scottish mission work in and around Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79995
title: Mission Church, Ngoniland, Malawi, ca.1930

description: "Bembecke Mission Church. Roman Catholic Church Ngoniland, N of Nyasaland". Interior view of the church looking along the central, columned, nave to the alter. The Catholic mission of Bembeke is situated east of Cape Maclear. Originally established as a sanatorium it became a White Fathers mission in 1910. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14766102.v38
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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80271
title: Missionary, Malawi, ca.1895

description: Portrait of a Scottish missionary in Nyasaland sitting with two indigenous boys and a dog. This image could possibly record scenes from the early years of the Overtoun Institution at Khondowe, also know as Livingstonia. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79809
title: Group portrait of Swahili women, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Swahili women". Group portrait of eleven Swahili women arranged outside a thatched building. There are seven standing and four women sitting in front of them, they are all wearing brightly patterned dress. The two women in the centre at the front have closed umbrellas between their knees, whilst one of the women at the back on the right of the image has an open umbrella over her shoulder.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79838
title: War monument, Zomba, Malawi, ca.1911

description: "To Soldiers of Nyasaland who fell in Somaliland. At Zomba, Barracks behind". Exterior view of a war memorial; "In memory of the following officers, non-commissioned officers and men who were killed in the action of Gumburru 17th April 1903, Daratoleh 22nd April 1903, Jidballi 19th January 1904, or Died in Somaliland 1902-1904". It is a stone memorial with a brass plaque listing those who died. The Zomba military barracks can be seen in the background with uniformed guards. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79829
title: Ordination of first Native ministers, Blantyre, Malawi, 11 April, 1911

description: Group portrait showing the ministers and laymen of Blantyre mission including the newly ordained Harry Matecheta seated in the front row on Dr. Hetherwick's right side and Stephen Kundecha who is seated to his left. The group is arranged in front of Blantyre church. Harry, known as Father Harry, was from the Yao tribe and had been an evangelist-teacher in Angoniland since 1898. Stephen, previously known as Asoma, had been head native teacher in the Domasi mission. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79822
title: Ivory, Zanzibar, ca.1908-1912

description: "Tusks of ivory". Exterior view showing a large pile of tusks in a courtyard. There is a man carrying a tusk to the left of the image and two men behind the pile to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79808
title: Group portrait of Maasai warriors, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Masai warriors in war dress". Group portrait of four Maasai warriors wearing war dress, with sheilds and spears. The two men at the edge of the image are crouched down holding their shields whilst the two in centre are standing behind theirs. The spears are planted into the ground next to each man. There is a tree behind them and trees and shrubs in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79823
title: Hairdressing, Zanzibar, ca.1908-1912

description: "Hair dressing at Zanzibar". Portrait of two women, one is sitting on a wooden barrel arranging the hair of the woman sat between her knees, she is using a large wooden comb. Both women are wearing sarong style dress.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79888
title: Harry and Cameron Watson, Malawi, ca.1938

description: "Harry Milne Watson B. 5.12.1928, Cameron Watson". Portrait of two young boys both standing to attention with rifles. They are the children of Henry Steel Watson and Margaret Elizabeth Watson. Originally ordained, in 1923, to the Iringa mission, Tanganyika [Tanzania], they moved to Mihecani in 1927 and then onto Blantyre. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79854
title: Portrait of two young girls, Domasi, Malawi, ca.1928

description: "Nancy Bowman". Portrait of two young girls holding cages. Nancy Bowman, born 9th May 1920, was the daughter of Ernest Drewitt Bowman, born Aberlour-on-Spey 4th October, 1883, ordained 8th May 1910. He was a missionary teacher in Nyasaland from 1903 before becoming and ordained missionary. He married Jessie Grant in 1912. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79835
title: Mauritius Hemp [Furcraea Foetida] field, Malawi, ca.1911

description: "Mauritius Hemp Nursery, Nyasaland, A. J. Storey, Blantyre". Exterior view showing a field of Furcraea Foetida, also know as Mauritius Hemp, Green Aloe or Giant Cabuya. It is grown to produce a natural fibre used in ropes and twine. The crop is precisely sown in straight furrows. There are cloud covered mountains in the distance. The photograph has been taken by an A. J. Storey, who worked on developing crops with good yields. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79839
title: Machila or litter, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "The Machila". Image showing a European man standing on a pathway, leaning on a Machila, or carrying hammock or litter. The Machila is being carried on the shoulders of four indigenous men, with eight other men standing in attendance. Mountains and thick vegetation can be seen behind the men, with a path bisecting the one they are on in the foreground. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80127
title: Portrait of a headman, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "A headman". Portrait of a seated old man, He is leaning towards the camera and is wearing many bracelets and a beaded necklace. He has a Fez hat on his head and holds a stick in his right hand. He wears the traditional kikoi.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79770
title: Thuchi River, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Thuchi River 30 miles from Chogoria" Landscape view of river Thuchi. The site of Chogoria was established by a native evangelist and dispenser sent out from Kikuyu in 1916. It sits on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, 35 miles from the summit at 17,040 feet, and administered to the Chuka, Mwimbi and Meru tribes. Mission station established by Dr A.C. Irvine, his wife and Mr Ernest Carr when they arrived, in 1922, from TumuTumu. Chogoria is built on a wooded ridge at an altitude of 5,000 feet. Mr Carr arrived first and built a bungalow in 1922, the Irvines arrived that autumn. A stone church was built to replace the thatch and wattle old church and was opened in 1930. Safaris into Tharaka country were undertaken to preach.The Thuchi river acts as a boundary between the sites of Embu and Chuka. This image was taken from a photograph album of the Tumutumu mission in September 1926.
DOI: 10.5519/qd.izfxfu68
title: Query on the Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk) (1 records)