"I want to take you to one of the Kikuyu villages to show you something of the types of life you might see there. This is a typical Kikuyu village with it's circular huts thatched with grass the smaller huts are grain stores, while the sheep and goats of which they have large herds, constitute the wealth of the Kikuyu people." Exterior view of the thatched huts that made up the village of Kikuyu and livestock in the foreground. ❧ "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.
Authors
Arthur, John William, Medical Missionary, Kikuyu, Kenya, 1881-1952
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79678
- Date published
- circa 1911
- Dates
- circa 1911
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 7.5 x 6.7 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Central Province Kenya Kikuyu
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75654453-1.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/d4ec285d1b94774226f727b7052c5310
