“No comment on native life is complete without mention of the drudgery of the African womens lives. They do all the garden work, almost all the building & all the caring for the children. Many grow old and worn at 40. On the left a woman in working dress.” Portrait of a women in traditional dress and adornments. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80574
- Dates
- 1922
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 10.1 x 12.1 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Chogoria Eastern Province Kenya
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-97124634-1.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/9ab56e267045c2789632f8223df9d53f
