"Women Carrying Water". Portrait of four adult women carrying water flasks along a road. Traditional dress is worn with coils of brass wire being worn in the ear lobes. The Tumutumu mission station, an arm of the Kikuyu Mission, opened in the Central Highlands of Kenya in 1909. The Kikuyu Mission had been founded on a temporary site by the Imperial British East Africa Company in 1891, before moving to Kikuyu territory in 1898, under the Rev. Thomas Watson. The Church of Scotland assumed control of the Mission in 1901. Hospitals started by the missionaries at both sites have thrived and continue to play a vital role in modern Kenyan society.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79736
- Dates
- 1926-09
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 10.5 x 8 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Central Province Kenya Tumutumu
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75657615-1.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/3027a67db4e7e94ac8c43af05c46f6ad
