“Nyirgu - a Mugikuyu, Hospital head boy. He doesn’t take any risks over his trousers slipping down. Does he?” Portrait of an indigenous man in army uniform. Nyirgu is a hospital assistant from British East Africa [Kenya] and of the Kikuyu people he would have trained at a mission hospital possibly at the Kikuyu mission. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81630
- Dates
- 1917-07/1917-11
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 4.9 x 10 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Dodoma Tanzania
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Tanzania
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-97047834-1.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/0b2193e7a598a5cdafa3a24037599551
