cover image: Initiation ceremony for the Rev. J N Ogilvie, Tumutumu, Kenya, 29 September 1920

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Initiation ceremony for the Rev. J N Ogilvie, Tumutumu, Kenya, 29 September 1920

1920

“Dr Ogilvie being instated member of Kiama.” Group portrait of the Members of the Kenya Kiama, a council of elders with legislative and judicial powers. Rev. James Nicoll Ogilvie (1860-1926) was the convener of the Foreign Mission Committee and an ex-Moderator of the General Assembly, in 1920 he toured the Church of Scotland missions, in British East Africa, and at Tumutumu he was honoured by local elders when he was made a member of the Kiama ❧ This image is from an album chronicling the time that Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) spent at Tumutumu (1919-1921) and some of the early years at Chogoria.
ceremonies leaders (people) customs (social) ogilvie, j. n. (james nicoll), 1860-1926
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81928
Dates
1920-09-29
Pages
Photographic prints, 7.3 x 9.8 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Central Province Kenya Tumutumu
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Kenya
Reference
impa-a-nls-97121679-1.tif
Rights
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Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/9a6d074b6ecde7bd96468fdacd4b292a