cover image: Kikuyu Native Hut, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

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Kikuyu Native Hut, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

1926

Kikuyu Native Hut. Heathen Mother & Heathen Village" Exterior view showing an indigenous woman and her children, standing outside of a thatched hut. 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. Located on the ‘lower shamba’, the site stands 12 miles from Nairobi, at a distance of approximately 342 miles away from the coast. The Church of Scotland assumed control of the Mission in 1901. The Hunter Memorial Hospital was opened in January 1908, making it the first permanent building erected at Kikuyu and by the 6th of January, patients were beginning to be admitted. Smallpox and cases of famine were the most common illnesses. The mission church was built as a memorial to Dr Ruffelle Scott who originally began the building of a mission church as a memorial to the Reverend Thomas Watson, who died in 1900. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.
dwellings indigenous peoples families
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79634
Dates
1926-08
Pages
Photographic prints, 10.8 x 8.4 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Central Province Kenya Kikuyu
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Kenya
Reference
impa-a-nls-75654321-1.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/fb5bea9c6c7d352011af747fe31c79c9

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