cover image: Grinding millet, Chogoria, Kenya, 1922

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Grinding millet, Chogoria, Kenya, 1922

1922

“one of Kioja’s sons wives grinding millet to make ‘gruel’.” Portrait of a woman grinding millet between two stones by hand. The Kioja family of the Mwimbi lived near the mission. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
women food processing domestic life
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80573
Dates
1922
Pages
Photographic prints, 12.4 x 10 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Chogoria Eastern Province Kenya
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Kenya
Reference
impa-a-nls-97124631-1.tif
Rights
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/c6c58b3d4dc769c7e69bb65fcf952836

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